Data protection statement from Ebony Art Spot
Data protection policy
Ensuring your privacy is very important to us. In this data protection statement we inform you about how we use and protect your data on the Ebony Art Spot website.
Responsible organization
Our website is managed by:
Ebony Art Spot
Chamber of Commerce number: 71748679
Contact: info@ebonyartspot.com
Collection and storage of data
You can visit our website without entering any personal details. We save - even if the visit takes place via links in the newsletter - only access data without any personal reference:
- The name of your internet provider
- The website from which you will come to us
- The name of the requested file
This data is used solely for the purpose of improving our offer and does not contain any conclusions about you as a person. We collect, store and process your data for the order processing of your purchases and any subsequent warranty and advertising purposes.
We collect and process the following personal data from you when you visit our website or voluntarily provide it to us at the time of placing an order, when opening a customer account or when registering for our newsletter:
- Your contact details, including your e-mail address
- Your account details from during the ordering process
- Online identifiers
What are online identifiers? When visiting a website, the browser sends mainly information about browser type and browser version, the operating system used, the referring URL, the IP address, the file name, the amount of data transferred, the date and time of the server request (the so-called online IDs). This information is pseudonymised for us and does not allow direct inference to your person.
Target
We process your data for the following purposes:
- Contact
- Advertising purposes
- Quality control
- Our statistics
- Processing of the purchase agreement
- Sending our newsletter
Legal basis
We process your data in accordance with the following legal basis:
- Your permission (Art. 6 paragraph 1, paragraph a) AVG)
- For the implementation of the sales agreement with you (Article 6, paragraph 1, paragraph b) AVG)
- Due to a legitimate interest on our part (Article 6, paragraph 1, paragraph f) AVG), namely the improvement of our offer, the protection against abuse and for our statistics
Third parties
When you have placed an order, we share your personal data with service providers affiliated with us with whom we work together to complete your order (including manufacturers, delivery partners and payment services). If you have registered for our newsletter, the personal information you provide will be used to send you personalized newsletters. Data will not be shared with third parties.
Our privacy policy is in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telecommunications Act (TMG) of the German Federal Republic.
Data sources
We receive your data directly from you (including data about the equipment you use).
Retention period
We save your data:
- When you agree to the processing of your data until you withdraw your consent, and otherwise after 6 months have expired or after the statutory payment periods have expired
- When we need your data to perform a contract, as long as the contractual relationship exists with you or there are legal retention periods
- When we use the data on the basis of a legitimate interest, at most as long as your interest in removal or anonymization does not prevail
Legitimate interests
When processing your data, we pursue the following legitimate interests:
- Improvement of our offer
- Protection against abuse
- Statistics
Recipients or categories of recipients of personal data
When processing your data, we work with the following service providers who have access to your data:
- Shipping partners
- Web hosting providers
- Providers of social media platforms
- Advertising networks (for advertising purposes)
- Providers of web analysis tools
Your rights as an involved party
You have the right - in part under certain conditions - according to article 15 of the GMS to:
- Request information about the processing of your data
- Improve your data
- Delete or block your data
- Limit the processing of your data
- Receive your data in a transferable format and send it to third parties
- Revoke consent to process data in the future
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
Any person concerned has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State where he or she usually resides, has his place of work or where the alleged infringement has been committed, if he considers that the processing of personal data concerning him is infringing to this Regulation.
The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been submitted shall inform the complainant of the progress and outcome of the complaint, as well as the possible remedy under Article 78
Contact about data protection at Ebony Art Spot
Requirement or obligation to provide data
Unless specified otherwise when collecting the data, the provision of data is not necessary or mandatory.
Other information about data protection
Contact
The easiest way to contact us is by sending an email to: Info@ebonyartspot.com
Data security
For each customer who registers, we set up a password-protected direct access to their stored file data (customer account). Here you can view details about your completed, open and recently sent orders and your address details
and manage settings for the newsletter. The transfer of data is encrypted in the following places:
* Login / * Customer account / * Shopping cart / * Order process
We protect our website and other systems through technical and organizational distribution of your data by unauthorized persons. You must always treat your access data confidentially and close the browser window when you have completed your visit to our website, especially when you share your computer with others.
Order and contract
We save the contract text and send your order data to your e-mail address immediately after receiving your order. You can view our general terms and conditions here at any time. If you are registered on the website, you can view your previous orders in your customer account. You can use different payment methods on our website. Your credit card details or account details are collected and processed directly by the relevant payment service provider and are not stored by us. We receive absolutely no access to your payment information. You can find more information in the respective data protection policy of the selected payment provider.
Anti-spam policy
Ebony Art Spot does not tolerate spam. However, that does not mean that we can prevent spam on the internet. If you think you have received unwanted e-mail from us, please contact Info@ebonyartspot.com so that we can sort out the problem.
Cookies
This website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file with an identification number that, when using our website, is transferred and stored on your computer, together with the other requested data. The storage of these cookies helps us to tune the website to you and simplify its use, for example by storing certain information that you have entered so that you do not have to enter it again and again. The data is stored there for a later moment and serves to authenticate the user.
Because cookies are simple files and not executable programs, they do not pose any potential danger to your computer. Depending on the preferences selected in your internet browser, cookies may be automatically accepted. These preferences can be changed and the saving of cookies can be deactivated or set. In the event of a deactivation of the use of cookies, certain functions of the website will no longer be available, or only in limited form.
1. Session cookies
Session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser.
2. Permanent cookies
We also use cookies that remain on your hard drive. The expiry date is set at a time in the future. At a later visit it is then automatically recognized that you were with us before and which options and settings you prefer, as well as any text that you have entered in our forms.
3. Use of third-party cookies
We work together with various advertising partners who help us to make our internet services and the Ebony Art Spot website more interesting for you. For this reason, cookies from our partner organizations are also installed on your hard drive. These are temporary cookies that remove themselves after a while. Cookies from partner organizations are usually deleted after a few days or within 24 months and, in individual cases, after a few years. The cookies from our partner organizations do not contain any personal identification data. Data is only collected under a user ID that will not be linked to your personal data in any way. You can revoke the transfer and storage of data for web analysis at any time with application to the future if you notify us of this by e-mail via Info@ebonyartspot.com.
Google Analytics with the extension "anonymize IP"
This website uses Google Analytics for web analysis. This is a service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies". The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is sent to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google complies with the privacy policy of "EU US Privacy Shield" for the transatlantic exchange of personal data. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for us and to offer us other services related to website activity and internet use.
Google may also pass this information on to third parties, if legally required, or to the extent that third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Google will not link your IP address to other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in full.
If you do not want information about your website visit to be forwarded to Google Analytics, you have the option to install a "deactivation add-on" for your browser. The current link is: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Ebony Art Spot also uses the following advertising functions of Google Analytics: Adwords, Retargeting, Impression reports in the Google Display Network and demographic and interest reporting.
To disable the Google Analytics advertising features, follow this link to the Google Advertising Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads). You can also visit the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and follow the explanation and comments (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/).
Last update of this data protection statement:
December 3, 2019
We reserve the right to change this data protection statement at any time in the future.