Privacy policy

We, EMK, Marc Bach, Otto-Hahn-Allee 31, 50374 Erftstadt, are pleased to welcome you to our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We will provide you with detailed information on the handling of your personal data.

1. Visit our website

You can visit our website without giving any personal data. Any usage and log file data as well as your IP address are immediately deleted or pseudonymized. This data is only used to improve our service.

2. Use of our Webshop – Your Order

If you would like to order something from our webshop, you must create a customer account and register by e-mail address and a password. For the purpose of simplifying and facilitating revocable subsequent purchases, we collect and store the data necessary for the execution of the order and save it. As well as any other data voluntarily provided by you.

We process and use the personal data collected during the ordering process for the execution of the contract and, if necessary, pass it on to appropriate service providers such as suppliers or our service team.

In order to process payments, we will pass on your payment data to our financial service providers, who are responsible for payment processing. In order to guarantee the best possible security of your payment data, the order process is encrypted using SSL technology. After the contract has been completed and the statutory retention requirements expire, we will delete your payment data.

No further transmission of your data to third parties takes place, unless we are legally obliged to do so.

3. Responsibility

If you wish to send us a request by e-mail or use our contact form, we will collect the data provided to us in this way for processing your request. According to your request, we will respond to your request for a contact or any other information.

4. Cookies

We use cookies in our online offers on various pages in order to make the use of our website comfortable and to enable the use of certain functions, in particular to provide a comfortable online shop system with shopping cart function.

Cookies are small text files, which are stored by us through your browser on your computer. These files contain only data that we send to your computer. Private data can not be read. Through the cookies we have the possibility to identify your computer, make our online shop more personal and to facilitate the use of the online shop.

We use session cookies and permanent cookies. Session cookies are only used temporarily and to provide certain functionalities. When the browser is closed, they are deleted. The so-called permanent cookies, on the other hand, are retained even after closing the browser and can have a "lifetime" of a few days to several months. We cooperate with a few partner companies that help us to collect and analyze statistical and pseudonym data (see section 5 of this privacy statement). When visiting our website, cookies from partner companies are also set and stored on your computer. These third-party cookies are generally permanent cookies.

Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. If you do not want to take advantage of the cookies, you can change the handling of cookies in your browser's security or data protection settings. You can disable the saving of cookies, including third-party cookies, or set your browser to notify you when cookies are sent. In addition, browsers regularly provide a function to delete individual or all cookies subsequently. You can use the help function of most web browsers to find out how to create make the above settings.

We would like to point out that in the case of the deactivation of cookies not all functions of our website can be used.

5. Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files which are stored on your computer and which allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, since IP anonymization is enabled on this website, your IP address will be abbreviated by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other states parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the US and abbreviated 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 related to website usage and internet usage against the website operator. The IP address provided by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent cookies from being saved by setting your browser software accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to fully utilize all the functions of this website.

In addition, you may prevent Google from tracking the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by clicking on the link below (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en) download and install the available browser plugin.

You can also prevent Google Analytics from being captured by clicking the link below. An opt-out cookie is set that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics

For more information on Google's Terms of Service and Privacy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html or https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.

We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "anonymizeIp" to ensure an anonymous detection of IP addresses (IP masking).

6. Use of Social Plugins

We use social plugins from various social networks (eg facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram etc.) on our pages. We use the "Shariff" social media buttons, which allow you to use social media services without compromising your privacy unnecessarily.

In order to prevent an undesired direct transfer of your usage data to these social networks, a direct connection to the servers of the mentioned services is established by clicking on the symbol of the respective network by your browser, that is, Only then is user information transmitted to the respective provider. For information on how to deal with your personal data when using these websites, please refer to the respective data protection regulations of the providers:

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en
Google+ und YouTube: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
Pinterest: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

7. Newsletter Shipping

If you would like to receive our newsletter, you must provide your e-mail address to which we can send the newsletter. By providing your e-mail address, you agree that we will use it to send the newsletters to inform you about news. You can, of course, revoke your consent to the newsletters at any time. The revocation can be explained by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter or by sending a message to the contact address given below. The registration for our newsletter takes place in a double opt-in procedure. This means you will receive an e-mail after registration, in which you will be asked to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no one can log on with foreign e-mail addresses. The registrations for the newsletter are recorded in order to be able to prove the registration process according to the legal requirements. This includes both the logon and the confirmation time, as well as the IP address.

8. Indirect use of your data

We use your name and address for further postal information about interesting products and services. If we receive your e-mail address in connection with the sale of a product or service and you have not objected to it, we reserve the right to send you regular offers on similar products, such as the one already purchased, from our product range by e-mail , You may object to this use of your e-mail address at any time by sending a message to the contact address below or via a link provided in the advertising e-mail without incurring charges other than the transmission costs of the base rates. Of course, you may at any time object to the use of your data for advertising and marketing purposes, even if this is legally permissible without your consent (for example, postal advertising), by sending us a simple notification without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs after the base prices.

9. Links to other Websites

Our websites may contain links to third-party websites that are not covered by this privacy statement. If the use of the Internet pages of other providers involves the collection, processing or use of personal data, please refer to the data protection guidelines of the respective providers.

10. Data Security

The security of your personal data has top priority for us. In order to avoid loss or misuse of the data stored by us, we therefore undertake extensive technical and operational safety checks which are regularly checked and adapted to the technological progress. However, we must point out that the structure of the Internet can lead to unwanted data access by third parties. We have no influence on this data transfer. It is thus within the responsibility of the user to protect the data provided by you by encryption or in some other way against misuse. Without appropriate protective measures, data transmitted in a non-encrypted manner can be read by third parties, even if this is done by e-mail.

11. Rights on Information and Revision

You have the right to free information about your stored personal data, the origin and the recipient, the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data.

If you have any questions or are unable to exercise your rights of information and revocation, please contact our data protection officer

Marcel Mix, Otto-Hahn-Allee 31, 50374 Erftstadt, Germany info@emk.com.

Last update: May 2017