Privacy Notice
The controller within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is Santani B.V.
Your rights as a person
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided for our data protection officer:
Information about your data stored by us and its processing Art. 15 GDPR),
Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR), Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR)
Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and data portability if you have onsented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).
If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.
You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your place of residence or the authority responsible for us as the controller.
A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.
Collection of general information when visiting our website
Nature and purpose of the processing:
When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and similar.
They are processed for the following purposes in particular:
Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website,
Ensuring the
smooth use of our website,
evaluating
system security and stability and
to optimize
our website.
We do not use
your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind may
be statistically evaluated by us in anonymized form in order to optimize our
website and the technology behind it.
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
Receiver:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the
operation and maintenance of our website.
Third country transfer:
The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes, Canada
(Shopify)
The following
data protection guarantees are in place:
EU Commission adequacy decision
Standard contractual clauses
Storage duration:
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was
collected. For the data used to provide the website, this is generally the case
when the respective session has ended.
If the data is stored in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymized so that it is no longer possible to identify the accessing client.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.
Cookies
Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone,
etc.) when you visit our website.
You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. You will also receive
information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on your browser provider, you will find the
necessary information under the following links:
Mozilla Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen
Internet Explorer:
https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Opera:
http://www.opera.com/de/help
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE
Storage duration and cookies used:
If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following
cookies may be used on our websites: 2 years
Technically necessary cookies
Nature and purpose of the processing:
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change.
The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary for the browser to be recognized even after
a page change.
We require cookies for the following applications:
Shopping cart
Adoption of language settings
Remembering search terms
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.
Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the
operation and maintenance of our website.
Third country transfer:
The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes, Canada (Shopify)
The following data protection guarantees are in place:
EU Commission adequacy decision
Standard contractual clauses
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without this data, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may not be available or may be restricted.
Contradiction
Please read the information on your right to object under Art. 21 GDPR below.
Technically not necessary cookies
We also use
cookies in order to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of
our visitors or to generally improve it on the basis of statistical
evaluations.
To find out
which providers use cookies, please refer to the information below on the
display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.
Legal basis:
The legal basis for this processing is your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the
operation and maintenance of our website.
For further recipients, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking,
remarketing and web analysis technologies used.
Third country transfer:
For more information, please refer to the lists of the individual display, tracking,
remarketing and web analysis providers.
Provision prescribed or required:
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see Revocation of consent).
Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.
Withdrawal of consent:
You can revoke your consent at any time via our cookie consent tool.
Profiling:
To what extent we analyze the behavior of website visitors with pseudonymized user profiles, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.
Registration on our website
Nature and purpose of the processing:
To register on our website, we require some personal data, which is transmitted to us via an input mask.
The following additional data is collected at the time of registration:
First name, last name, e-mail address, gender
Your registration is required for the provision of certain content and services on our website.
Legal basis:
The data entered during registration is processed on the basis of the user's consent
(Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).
Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the
operation and maintenance of our website.
Third country transfer:
The data
collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes, Canada
(Shopify)
The following
data protection guarantees are in place:
EU Commission
adequacy decision
Standard
contractual clauses
Storage duration:
Data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent has been
given.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot grant you access to the content we offer.
Third country transfer:
The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
No
The following data protection guarantees are in place:
Comment function
Nature and purpose of the processing:
When users leave comments on our website, the time of their creation and the user name previously selected by the website visitor are stored in addition to this information. This is for our security, as we can be prosecuted for illegal
content on our website, even if it was created by users.
Legal basis:
The data entered as a comment is processed on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).
By providing the comment function, we would like to enable you to interact in an
uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.
Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be processors.
Third country transfer:
The data collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes, Canada
(Shopify)
The following
data protection guarantees are in place:
EU Commission
adequacy decision
Standard
contractual clauses
Storage duration:
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was
collected. This is generally the case when communication with the user has been concluded and the company can infer from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified. We reserve the right to delete
comments without giving reasons and without prior or subsequent notification.
You can also have your comment deleted by us at any time. To do so, please write an e-mail to the data protection officer listed below or the person responsible for data
protection and send the link to your comment and, for identification purposes,
the e-mail address used when the comment was created.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without the provision of your personal
data, we cannot grant you access to our comment function.
Newsletter
Nature and purpose of the processing:
For the
delivery of our newsletter, we collect personal data that is transmitted to us
via an input mask.
We require a
valid e-mail address for effective registration. We use the "double
opt-in" procedure to check that a registration is actually made by the
owner of an e-mail address. For this purpose, we log the registration for the
newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email and the receipt of the
requested reply. No further data is collected.
Legal basis:
On the basis of your expressly granted consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR), we will
regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by e-mail to your
specified e-mail address.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the
newsletter at any time with effect for the future. There is a corresponding
link in every newsletter. You can also unsubscribe directly on this website at
any time or inform us of your revocation using the contact option provided at
the end of this data protection notice.
Recipient:
Recipients of
the data may be processors.
Third country transfer:
The data
collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes, Canada
(Shopify)
The following
data protection guarantees are in place:
EU Commission
adequacy decision
Standard
contractual clauses
Storage duration:
The data will
only be processed in this context for as long as the corresponding consent is
available. After that, it will be deleted.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision
of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent.
Unfortunately, we cannot send you our newsletter without your consent.
Withdrawal of consent:
You can revoke
your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the
newsletter at any time with effect for the future. You can unsubscribe via the
link contained in every e-mail or by contacting the data protection officer or
the person responsible for data protection listed below.
Contact form
Nature and purpose of the processing:
The data you
enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. This
requires you to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used to
assign the request and subsequently answer it. The provision of further data is
optional.
Legal basis:
The data
entered in the contact form is processed on the basis of a legitimate interest
(Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).
By providing
the contact form, we would like to make it easy for you to contact us. The
information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your
request and for possible follow-up questions.
If you contact
us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed
to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).
Recipient:
Recipients of
the data may be processors.
Third country transfer:
The data
collected may be transferred to the following third countries:
Yes, Canada
(Shopify)
The following
data protection guarantees are in place:
EU Commission
adequacy decision
Standard
contractual clauses
Storage duration:
Data will be
deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.
If there is a
contractual relationship, we are subject to the statutory retention periods in
accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after
these periods have expired.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision
of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request
if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the
request.
Use of Google Analytics
If you have given your consent, this website uses
Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre
Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google"). Google
Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your
computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information
generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted
to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation
of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by
Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other
contracting states of 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 truncated there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part
of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Further information on terms of use and data
protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and
at https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.
Google will
use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose
of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity
and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to
the website operator.
The data sent
by us and linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs
are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached the end of its
retention period is automatically deleted once a month.
Withdrawal of consent:
You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on
our website by clicking on this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on
your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this
website and for this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains
installed in your browser.
You can also prevent the storage 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 to
their full extent.
You can also prevent Google from collecting the
data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including
your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and
installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Browser
add-on to deactivate Google Analytics.
Use of script libraries (Google Webfonts)
In order to
display our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use
"Google Web Fonts" from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google") to display fonts
on this website.
Further
information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Use of Typekit web fonts from Adobe Fonts
We use Typekit
web fonts from Adobe Fonts for the visual design of our website. Adobe Fonts is
a service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Companies (4-6 Riverwalk,
Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland; hereinafter
"Adobe"), which grants us access to a font library.
To integrate
the fonts we use, your browser must establish a connection to an Adobe server
in the USA and download the font required for our website. Adobe then receives
the information that our website has been accessed from your IP address.
Further
information on Adobe Fonts can be found in the Adobe Fonts privacy policy,
which you can access here:
https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html
If your
browser does not support web fonts or you do not give your consent, a standard
font will be used by your computer.
Withdrawal of consent:
The provider
does not currently offer the option of simply opting out or blocking data
transmission. If you wish to prevent your activities on our website from being
tracked, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all
technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent
tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only
be able to use it to a limited extent.
Use of Google Maps
We use Google Maps on this website. Google Maps
is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043,
USA (hereinafter "Google"). This allows us to show you interactive
maps directly on the website and enables you to use the map function
conveniently.
You can find more information about data
processing by Google in the Google privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also change your personal data
protection settings there in the data protection center.
You can find detailed instructions on managing
your own data in connection with Google products here:
https://www.dataliberation.org
When you visit the website, Google receives
information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website.
This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which
you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to
Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account.
If you do not
wish to be associated with your Google profile, you must log out of Google
before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and
uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the
needs-based design of its websites. Such an evaluation is carried out in
particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based
advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your
activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of
these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.
Withdrawal of consent:
The provider
does not currently offer the option of simply opting out or blocking data
transmission. If you wish to prevent your activities on our website from being
tracked, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all
technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent
tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only
be able to use it to a limited extent.
Embedded YouTube videos
We embed
YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is
YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter referred to
as "YouTube"). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600
Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter
"Google"). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a
connection to YouTube servers is established. YouTube is informed which pages
you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your
surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your
YouTube account beforehand.
If a YouTube
video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user
behavior.
Further
information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by
YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy, where you will also find
further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to
protect your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
Withdrawal of consent:
The provider
does not currently offer the option of simply opting out or blocking data
transmission. If you wish to prevent your activities on our website from being
tracked, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all
technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent
tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only
be able to use it to a limited extent.
Google AdWords
Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The
company operating the Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre
Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an
advertisement placed by Google, Google AdWords will set a cookie on your
computer. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad
placed by Google.
If the user visits certain pages of our website
and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user
clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer
receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the
websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion
cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have
opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who
clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking
tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to
personally identify users.
You can find
more information about data processing by Google in the Google privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also change your personal data
protection settings there in the data protection center.
Withdrawal of consent:
The provider
does not currently offer the option of simply opting out or blocking data
transmission. If you wish to prevent your activities on our website from being
tracked, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all
technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent
tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only
be able to use it to a limited extent.
Use of Google Remarketing
This website
uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The operating company of the
Google Remarketing services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain
View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google").
The function
is used to present interest-based advertisements to website visitors within the
Google advertising network. A so-called "cookie" is stored in the
website visitor's browser, which makes it possible to recognize the visitor
when he or she visits websites that belong to the Google advertising network.
On these pages, the visitor may be presented with advertisements relating to
content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google's
remarketing function.
You can find
more information about data processing by Google in the Google privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also change your personal data
protection settings there in the data protection center.
Withdrawal of consent:
The provider
does not currently offer the option of simply opting out or blocking data
transmission. If you wish to prevent your activities on our website from being
tracked, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all
technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent
tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website or may only
be able to use it to a limited extent.
SSL encryption
To protect the
security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption
methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Information
about your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR
Individual right of objection
You have the
right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time
to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on point (f) of
Art. 6 (1) GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this
also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4
No. 4 GDPR.
If you object,
we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate
compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests,
rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or
defense of legal claims.
Recipient of an objection
Santani B.V.
Keizersgracht 62, 1015 Amsterdam
Changes to our privacy policy
We reserve the
right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current
legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy
policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then
apply to your next visit.
Questions for the data protection officer
If you have any questions about
data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for
data protection in our organization directly:
The privacy policy was created
with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection
officers (version #2020-09-30).