Data Protection Policy

We are happy about your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below, we will inform you in detail about the treatment of your data.
 
Collection, Processing and Use of Personal Data

You may visit our website without stating any personal data. We merely store the access data without personal reference, such as e.g. the name of your internet service provider, the website from which you are visiting us or the name of the requested file. This data is evaluated solely in order to improve our offer and does not allow any conclusions about your identity. Personal data is collected only if you voluntarily share it with us within the scope of your order of goods, when opening a customer account or registering for our newsletter. Without your express permission, we will use the data submitted by you solely in order to complete and process your order. Upon complete processing of the agreement and complete payment of the purchase price, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted upon expiration of the retention periods prescribed by tax and commercial law, unless you expressly consented to the further use of your data. When registering for the newsletter, your email address will be used for our own promotional purposes until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Un-subscription is possible at any time. In order to do so, please send an email to newsletterabmeldung@be-meister.com.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies on a number of sites in order to make the visit of our website attractive and in order to enable the use of certain functions. These are little text files which are placed on our computer. Most of the cookies used by us are deleted from your hard-drive after the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognize your computer at the next visit (so-called permanent cookies). If you do not want us to recognize your computer, you can deactivate the storing of cookies in your browser.   

Creation of Pseudonymous User Profiles for Purposes of Web Analysis

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis provider of Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “Cookies”, text files which are stored on your computer and which enable analysis of the use of the website by you. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. In case the IP anonymization on this website is activated, however, your IP address will first be abbreviated by Google within the Member States of the European Union or in other Member States of the Treaty on the European Economic Area. The full IP address is transferred to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. Upon request of the operator of this website, Google will use this information in order to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to render further services relating to the use of the website and the internet to the website operator. The IP address transferred by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not merged with other data of Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by making appropriate settings in your browser software; we would like to point out, however, that in this case you may not be able to fully use all functions of this website. You can further prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link   [insert link here. The current link is tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google+

This website uses Google Plus of the provider Google, Inc. This plug-in generates a connection with the Google servers via your browser. Thereby, the content of the plug-in is transferred to your browser and subsequently integrated into the website presented by it. Insofar, the information that you have used our website is forwarded to Google. Should you be a Google Plus member and logged into Google Plus while using our website personal data is collected and processed. Purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google as well as your related rights and objection possibilities can be viewed in the Google data protection policy. If you as a Google Plus member do not want Google to collect data about you via our website and to connect this data with your membership data stored with Google, please log out of Google Plus prior to visiting our website.

Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data is provided to the shipping company retained to deliver your merchandise, if this is necessary to deliver the merchandise. In order to process payment, we will transfer your payment details to our payment providers and to the credit card institution mandated with the payment.

Integration of Social Media Offers

In order to make our internet offer more user friendly for our users, we temporarily offer social plug-ins by selected social media platforms such as e.g. Facebook or Twitter. These plug-ins are generally marked by a logo of the respective platform and a written supplement. As soon as you open a page with a corresponding plug-in, your browser will establish a direct connection to its servers. This primarily serves to present the content of the plug-in. In this case, the platform provider will learn about your IP address. In practice, this IP address cannot be matched to your name. Under certain circumstances, the platform provider may place a cookie onto your computer in this process (see: Use of Cookies). You can decide whether you will accept such cookies by the way you set your browser settings. Facebook is a practical example:  

Use of Facebook Social Plug-ins

This website uses so-called Social Plug-ins ("Plug-ins") of the social network Facebook which is operated by  Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). The Plug-ins are marked with a Facebook logo or the supplement “Social Plug-in of Facebook” or “Facebook Social Plug-in”. An overview of the Facebook Plug-ins and their design may be accessed here: developers.facebook.com/plugins

If you open a site of our web presence which contains such a Plug-in, your browser will establish a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the Plug-in will be transferred directly to your browser by Facebook and will be integrated into the website by it.  

By integrating the Plug-ins, Facebook will receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding site of our web presence even if you do not have a Facebook account or if you are not logged into Facebook at the time. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can match your visit of our website directly to your Facebook account. If you are interacting with the Plug-ins, e.g. click the “Like It” button or leave a comment, the corresponding information is also directly transmitted to a Facebook server and stored there. The information will further be published on Facebook and presented to your Facebook friends.

Facebook may use this information for purposes of marketing, market research and demand driven design of the Facebook pages. To this end, Facebook generates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. in order to evaluate your use of our website with a view to the promotional adds shown to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide further services related to the use of Facebook.

If you do not want Facebook to match the data Facebook collects via our web presence to your Facebook account you must log out of Facebook prior to visiting our website.


Purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your related rights and objection possibilities to protect your privacy can be viewed in the Facebook data protection policy: www.facebook.com/policy.php

Published Activity

IMPIRE gives you the option to publish on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks activities which you undertake on the beMeister website. IMPIRE does not have any control over how and to which extent information is distributed in the participating social networks.

Indemnity

All data and information uploaded by you with beMeister can be publicly viewed and used. The uploaded data and information can be read, shared, published, copied, transferred or otherwise used by third parties. In this context, IMPIRE cannot be held liable for uploaded data or information under any circumstances. You are granting access rights to your own data at your own risk. IMPIRE does not assume any responsibility for the loss, misuse or the uncontrolled transfer of uploaded data.  
You agree to indemnify, protect and hold harmless IMPIRE, its executive employees, directors, employees, officers, licensors and suppliers from and against all claims, losses, liability, expenses, damage claims and costs, among others attorneys’ fees, arising from or in connection with your user-generated content, your use of the contents, your use of the website, your behavior in connection with the website or other website users or any breach of these terms of use, laws or third party rights.

Credit Check and Scoring

If we provide advance deliveries, e.g. in case of a postpaid sale, we may obtain a credit check on the basis of mathematical-statistical processes from SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65201 Wiesbaden in order to protect our justified interests. To this end, we will transmit the personal data required for a credit check to SCHUFA Holding AG and will use the obtained information on the statistical probability of a payment default for a balanced decision on the formation, performance or termination of the contractual relationship. The credit check may contain probability values (score values) which are calculated on the basis of scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical processes and into the calculation of which address data is integrated (among other things). Your justified interests are considered in accordance with the applicable law.

Information Right

According to the German Federal Data Protection Act you are entitled to information about your stored data free of charge and to correction, blockage or deletion of this data, if required.

Contact Person for Data Protection

If you have questions on the collection, processing or use of your personal data or for information, correction, blockage or deletion of data as well as cancellation of granted consent please contact:

IMPIRE AG
Data Protection
Münchener Str. 101b
85737 Ismaning
Email: datenschutz@impire.de    

Last Amended: 30 November 2011