We operate the website www.dropshipping-pro.de and collect certain data from our customers and visitors as necessary. In the following privacy policy, you will learn what we do with your data, the so-called personal data, and why we do this. We also inform you how we protect your data, when this data is deleted, and what rights you have regarding data protection. To begin with: We comply with data protection laws and protect your privacy.

We want to be completely open, however: The internet thrives on data exchange and still has many security vulnerabilities. Even though your data is encrypted when visiting our website, there is always some residual risk when exchanging with external websites. If you visit other websites – for example via a link on our website – please note that this privacy policy does not apply to those external websites.

What is personal data?

Personal data in this context refers to all individual information about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person, such as names, addresses, or email addresses, as well as IP addresses.

Data Protection Officer

Marcel Ulbrich Onlinehandel
Marcel Ulbrich
Kastanienweg 51
08301 Aue-Bad Schlema OT Wildbach

Who can I contact?

Responsible for this website is:

Marcel Ulbrich Onlinehandel
Marcel Ulbrich
Kastanienweg 51
08301 Aue-Bad Schlema OT Wildbach
Tel.: 01723162902
E-Mail: [email protected]

You can also reach our Data Protection Officer via these contact details. If you have specific questions about your data, their deletion, or your rights, there is a direct contact option for data protection via the email address [email protected]. If you want to make a written inquiry, simply add „Data Protection“ in the subject line.

What are my rights?

You can contact us at any time if you have questions about your rights regarding data protection or if you want to exercise one of your following rights:

• Right to withdraw consent according to Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR (e.g., you can contact us if you want to revoke a previously given consent to a newsletter)
• Right to information according to Art. 15 GDPR (e.g., you can contact us if you want to know what data we have stored about you)
• Correction according to Art. 16 GDPR (e.g., you can contact us if your email address has changed and we should replace the old email address)
• Deletion according to Art. 17 GDPR (e.g., you can contact us if we should delete certain data that we have stored about you) Restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR (e.g., you can contact us if you want us not to delete your email address, but only use it for sending absolutely necessary emails)
• Data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR (e.g., you can contact us to receive your data stored with us in a compressed format, e.g., because you want to provide the data to another website) Objection according to Art. 21 GDPR (e.g., you can contact us if you do not agree with one of the advertising or analysis procedures specified here)
• Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority according to Art. 77 Para. 1 GDPR (e.g., you can also contact the data protection supervisory authority directly with complaints)

Deletion of data and storage duration

Unless otherwise stated, we delete your data as soon as it is no longer needed. Your data will also be blocked or deleted when a legally prescribed retention period expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract. Certain data may need to be retained longer for legal reasons. Of course, you can request information about stored data at any time.

Visiting the website

If you just want to browse our website, we do not collect any personal data, with the exception of the data that your browser transmits to enable the visit to the website, primarily:

• IP address (e.g., 95.91.215.192 or 2a02:8109:9440:1198:bdb1:551f:7ehe)
• Approximate location based on IP range (e.g., Berlin and surrounding area)
• Internet provider (e.g., Kabel Deutschland or Deutsche Telekom)
• Internet speed (e.g., 120 Mbit)
• Date and time (e.g., 11:45 am on 05/25/2018)
• Last visited website (e.g., google.de)
• Browser (e.g., Chrome or Safari)
• Operating system (e.g., Mac OS)
• Hardware (e.g., Intel processor)

Of most interest to you as a visitor to our website is the IP address, as this is data that can theoretically be traced back to you as a person.

As a protective measure for your privacy, we therefore delete or anonymize the IP address after your visit to our website. This means that the other technical data can no longer be traced back to you and only serve anonymous, statistical purposes for optimizing our website. The purpose of temporarily storing the data at the beginning is to ensure the connection as well as the accessibility and correct display of our website. The IP address and the technical data already mentioned are necessary to display the website, avoid display problems for visitors, and fix error messages. The legal basis is the so-called legitimate interest, which has been verified within the framework of the aforementioned protective measures and in accordance with the European data protection requirements from Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Contact form

You have the option to contact us via our contact form. You can provide us with the following data:

• First/Last name
• Phone
• Email address
• Message / Your message

As a protective measure, contact – just like visiting the rest of the website – takes place via an encrypted connection. In addition, we apply the principle of data minimization and only collect the data actually required in the contact form. After successful contact with you and final cessation of the reason for contact, your data will be deleted. The purpose of the requested data is solely to contact you, which is why the data is only used for this purpose. The legal basis is consent to data processing, which was given for the pursuit of the purpose and within the framework of the aforementioned protective measures. By sending the contact request/your message, consent is given.

Newsletter

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for providing our newsletter. We will only send you a newsletter by email if you confirm in our notification email by clicking on a link that you want to receive our newsletter. If you confirm your wish to receive the newsletter, we will store your email address for the purpose of sending the newsletter.

Of course, you can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time; you will find a link to do so in every newsletter. If you activate the link, you will be redirected and can confirm the unsubscription to us in an email. This allows us to ensure that the unsubscription is implemented in all processes. Alternatively, you can contact the contact details mentioned above.

We work with Shopify’s Marketing Tool from Shopify International Ltd. Attn: Data Protection Officer c/o Intertrust Ireland 2nd Floor 1-2 Victoria Buildings Haddington Road Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland for sending our newsletter. We have concluded a data processing agreement with this service provider that meets the requirements of Art. 28 GDPR. Further suitable guarantees for data transmission to countries outside the EU are in place.

Cookies

Our website partially uses so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are usually stored in a folder in your browser. Cookies contain information about the current or last visit to the website. If cookies do not contain an exact expiration date, they are only cached and automatically deleted when you close your browser or restart your device. Cookies with an expiration date remain stored even when you close your browser or restart your device. Such cookies are only removed on the specified date or when you manually delete them.

On our website, we use the following three types of cookies:

• Required cookies (we need these, e.g., to display the website correctly for you and to temporarily store certain settings)
• Function and performance-related cookies (these help us, e.g., to evaluate technical data of your visit and thus avoid error messages)
• Advertising and analytics-related cookies (these ensure that, e.g., advertisements for shoes are displayed if you have previously searched for shoes) You can configure, block, and delete cookies in your browser settings. If you delete all cookies on our website, some functions of the website may not be displayed correctly. The Federal Office for Information Security provides helpful information and instructions for common browsers: https://www.bsi-fuer-buerger.de/BSIFB/DE/Empfehlungen/EinrichtungSoftware/EinrichtungBrowser/Sicherheitsmassnahmen/Cookies/cookies_node.html

With the exception of technically required cookies, the other cookie types are only activated after explicit consent is given. This consent can be revoked at any time. You can find the revocation option and further information in the cookie settings.

For the management of cookies and similar technologies (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents, we use the consent tool „Real Cookie Banner“. Details on how „Real Cookie Banner“ works can be found at https://devowl.io/de/rcb/datenverarbeitung/. The legal bases for the processing of personal data in this context are Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of the cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents. The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. If you do not provide the personal data, we cannot manage your consents.

Google Fonts

For the visual improvement of the typeface, Google Fonts (https://fonts.google.com) from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“) are used, a font collection from Google. These fonts are transferred to your browser’s storage folder and activated when you visit this website or other websites. If this is not supported, the text on the website will only be displayed in a standard font. To enable this, a request is sent to domains such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, which contains your IP address for technical reasons. However, your data is not merged with other data or traced back to you as a person.

As protective measures, we have ensured that the retrieval of the font collection from Google does not result in the merging of data with other Google services, e.g., if you have a Google user account. English information on data protection at Google Fonts confirms this (https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq). In addition, the high security standards of the Google platform and the associated privacy policy of Google (http://www.google.com/intl/de-DE/privacy) apply. Since Google is based in the USA and thus in a so-called third country, further guarantees are required to ensure an adequate European level of data protection. Google has signed special data protection clauses (so-called EU standard contractual clauses on data protection) with us for this purpose.
The purpose of the data transmission is the correct display of the fonts in the form we have set. The IP address is necessary to establish a connection with Google’s servers in order to download the font collection if it is not already stored on the end device. The legal basis is the so-called legitimate interest, which has been verified for the pursuit of the purpose and within the framework of the aforementioned protective measures, as well as in accordance with the European data protection requirements from Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Usercentrics Consent Management Platform

On our website, we use the Usercentrics Consent Management Platform („Usercentrics“) to inform you about the technologies we use on our website and to obtain, manage, and document your consent to the processing of your personal data by these technologies. This is required according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c GDPR to fulfill our legal obligation according to Art. 7 Para. 1 GDPR to be able to prove your consent to the processing of your personal data, to which we are subject. The consent management service Usercentrics is offered by Usercentrics GmbH, Rosental 4, 80331 Munich, which processes your data on our behalf. When visiting our website, the web server of Usercentrics stores a so-called server log file, which also contains your anonymized IP address, date and time of the visit, device and browser information, as well as information about your consent behavior. Your data will be deleted after three years, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data according to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR or we reserve the right to use your data beyond this, which is legally permitted and about which we inform you in this declaration.

Website Analysis:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“). Google Analytics uses the advertising and analytics cookies described above to analyze our website regarding your usage behavior. The information generated by cookies about the use of this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, your IP address is shortened before the usage statistics are evaluated, so that no conclusions can be drawn about your person. For this purpose, Google Analytics has been extended on our website with the code „anonymizeIp“ to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses. Google will use the anonymized information obtained through the cookies to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities for website operators, and to provide other services associated with website usage and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.

You can also configure your browser to reject cookies, or you can prevent the collection and analysis of data by Google by downloading and installing a browser plugin (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de) from Google. Alternatively to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, you can set an opt-out cookie to prevent collection by Google Analytics within this website in the future (the opt-out only works in the browser and only for this domain). If you delete your cookies in this browser, you will need to click this link again.

As protective measures, we use the anonymization procedure offered by Google, which means that subsequent evaluation of the data is not based on your person, but only on a statistical basis. In addition, the high security standards of the Google platform and the associated privacy policy of Google (http://www.google.com/intl/de-DE/privacy) apply. We have also concluded a special data protection contract with Google that prescribes the protection of your data through technical and organizational protective measures. Since Google is based in the USA and thus in a so-called third country, further guarantees are required to ensure an adequate European level of data protection. Google has signed special data protection clauses (so-called EU standard contractual clauses on data protection) with us for this purpose. The purpose of using Google Analytics is the anonymized analysis of your usage behavior on our websites. The insights gained from this help to improve our service. The legal basis is consent according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit a GDPR. In addition, a data processing agreement has been concluded in accordance with the requirements of Art. 28 GDPR.

Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager. This service allows website tags to be managed via an interface. The Google Tool Manager only implements tags. This means: No cookies are used and no personal data is collected. The Google Tool Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If deactivation has been made at the domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags, provided these are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.

Privacy Policy status: August 2024