data protection

PRIVACY POLICY

The person responsible for data processing is:
Blend Republic Trading GmbH
Am Volkspark 1
50321 Brühl
info(at)blendrepublic.de

We are pleased that you are interested in our online shop. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below we will inform you in detail about how we handle your data.

  1. access data and hosting

You can visit our websites without providing any personal information. Each time you access a website, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the access.

This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offering. In accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

hosting services provided by a third party
As part of processing on our behalf, a third-party provider provides us with the services for hosting and displaying the website. This serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests. All data collected as part of the use of this website or in the forms provided for this purpose in the online shop as described below are processed on their servers. Processing on other servers only takes place within the framework explained here.

This service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

  1. Data collection and use for contract processing, contact

We collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order or when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such because in these cases we absolutely need the data to process the contract or to process your contact and you cannot send the order or contact without providing it. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR to process the contract and process your inquiries. If you have given your consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR by deciding to open a customer account, we will use your data for the purpose of opening a customer account. After the contract has been fully processed or your customer account has been deleted, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after the tax and commercial retention periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this declaration. Your customer account can be deleted at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a function provided for this purpose in the customer account.

  1. data transfer

In order to fulfil the contract in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter b of GDPR, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods. Depending on which payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to payment service providers commissioned by us or to the selected payment service in order to process payments. In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you create an account with them. In this case, you must log in to the payment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the data protection declaration of the respective payment service provider applies.

The same applies to the transfer of data to our manufacturers or wholesalers in cases where they handle shipping for us (drop shipment).

  1. Cookies and web analytics

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. Cookies are small text files that are automatically saved on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can find out how long they are stored for in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed when cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Safari™: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/12.0/mac/10.14
Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en
Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-allow-und-reject
Opera™ : https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysis
If you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a of GDPR, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics for the purpose of website analysis. The web analysis service is offered by Google Ireland Limited, a company registered and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. (www.google.de). Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not merged with other Google data. Once the purpose no longer applies and we no longer use Google Analytics, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

To the extent that information is transferred to Google servers in the USA and stored there, the American company Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here . Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has determined an appropriate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de . This will prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google.

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click this link to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future. An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies, you will be asked to give your consent again.

  1. social media plug-ins

Use of social plugins from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from social networks.
If you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter or Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plugin, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page on our website, even if you do not have a profile or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider (possibly in the USA) and stored there. If you are logged in to one of the services, the providers can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile in the respective social network. If you interact with the plug-ins, for example by pressing the "Like" or "Share" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts there. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our offer, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as a contact option and your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the providers.
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
https://twitter.com/privacy
https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

If you do not want the social networks to assign the data collected via our website directly to your profile in the respective service, you must log out of the relevant service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of the plugins using add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker "NoScript" (https://noscript.net/).

YouTube video plugins
This website includes content from third-party providers. This content is provided by Google (“Provider”).
YouTube is an offering from Google Ireland Limited, a company registered and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (www.google.de).

For videos from YouTube that are embedded on our site, the extended data protection setting is activated. This means that no information from website visitors is collected and stored on YouTube unless they play the video. The integration of the videos serves to protect our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our offer, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR.
For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy .

Our online presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest
Our presence on social networks and platforms serves to improve and actively communicate with our customers and interested parties. We provide information about our products and current special offers there.
When you visit our online presence on social media, your data may be automatically collected and stored for market research and advertising purposes. So-called usage profiles are created from this data using pseudonyms. These can be used, for example, to place advertisements within and outside the platforms that presumably correspond to your interests. Cookies are usually used on your device for this purpose. These cookies store visitor behavior and the interests of users. In accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests, in an optimized presentation of our offer and effective communication with customers and interested parties. If you are asked by the respective social media platform operators for consent (agreement) to data processing, e.g. using a checkbox, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.
If the aforementioned social media platforms have their headquarters in the USA, the following applies: For the USA, there is an adequacy decision from the European Commission. This is based on the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate for the respective company can be viewed here .
For detailed information on the processing and use of data by the providers on their websites, as well as a contact option and your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, in particular the option to object (opt-out), please refer to the providers' data protection notices linked below. If you still need help in this regard, you can contact us.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

The data processing is carried out on the basis of an agreement between joint controllers in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR, which you can view here:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Twitter: https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
Pinterest: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

Opt-out option:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads
Twitter: https://twitter.com/personalization
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.de/?next=/settings/

  1. Contact options and your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

  • pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;
  • pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to immediately request the rectification of inaccurate or completion of your personal data stored by us;
  • pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing
    – to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
    – to fulfill a legal obligation;
    – for reasons of public interest or
    – to assert, exercise or defend legal claims
    is required;
  • pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
    – you dispute the accuracy of the data;
    – the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure;
    – we no longer need the data, but you require it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or
    – you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
  • pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller;
  • pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or of our company headquarters.

If you have any questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data, information, correction, restriction or deletion of data, as well as revocation of consent granted or objection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our legal notice.

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right of objection
If we process personal data as described above to protect our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is carried out for other purposes, you only have the right to object if there are reasons arising from your particular situation.

After exercising your right of objection, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes. In this case, we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose. ********************************************************************

Data protection declaration created with the Trusted Shops legal text generator in cooperation with Wilde Beuger Solmecke Rechtsanwälte .