Below we would like to inform you about our privacy policy. Here you will find information about the collection and use of personal data when using our online store. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and observe the data protection law applicable in Germany. You can access this declaration at any time on our website.

We expressly point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) is subject to security gaps and cannot be completely protected against access by third parties.

1. Information on the collection of personal data and provider identification

   1. In the following, we provide information about the collection of personal data when using this website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.
   2. Essential Clothing GmbH, Velaskostraße 6 , D-85622 Feldkirchen, Germany, phone: +49 89 550 558 – 0, e-mail: Essential Clothing GmbH, Velaskostraße 6 , D-85622 Feldkirchen, Germany, phone: +49 89 550 558 – 0:  service@elemente-clemente.de, see our legal notice.

2. Existence of a right of access, rectification or erasure or restriction of processing or a right to object to processing, right to data portability

   1. You have the right to request information from us at any time about the data we have stored about you, as well as its origin, recipients or categories of recipients to whom this data is passed on and the purpose of storage.
   2. You have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you or the restriction of processing. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
   3. You have the right to demand that we erase personal data concerning you without undue delay. Among other things, we are obliged to delete them if they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed or if you have withdrawn your consent.
   4. You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided the processing is based on your consent or the processing is carried out by automated means.
   5. If you have given your consent to the use of data, you can revoke this at any time.
   6. Please send all requests for information, requests for information or objections to data processing by e-mail to service@elemente-clemente.de or to the address given in section 1.2.

3. Data security

   We maintain up-to-date technical measures to ensure data security, in particular to protect your personal data from risks during data transmission and from third parties gaining knowledge of it. These are adapted in line with the current state of the art.

4. Collection of personal data for informational use

   1. If you use the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not contact us or otherwise provide us with information beyond the mere use of the website, we do not collect any personal data, with the exception of the data that your browser transmits to enable you to visit the website. These are
      • IP address
      • Date and time of the request
      • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
      • Content of the request (specific page)
      • Access status/HTTP status code
      • Amount of data transferred in each case
      • Website from which the request comes
      • Browser
      • Operating system and its interface
      • Language and version of the browser software.
   2. Furthermore, cookies are stored on your computer when you use the website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk and assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the body that sets the cookie (in this case us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They are used to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.
   3. This website uses cookies to the following extent: http://docs.magento.com/m2/ce/user_guide/stores/cookie-reference.html
   4. You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept cookies. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of this website.
   5. This stored information is stored separately from any other data you may have provided to us. In particular, the cookie data is not linked to your other data.

5. Collection of personal data when contacting us, for advertising purposes and for order processing

   1. The collection and processing of personal data (including, for example, your name, your address and your e-mail address) takes place if you expressly provide us with this data in order to contact us. This personal data is used exclusively for the purpose of processing your inquiries (contact).
   2. We collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us when opening a customer account or when placing an order, e.g. by filling out a corresponding form. We store and use the data you enter in the form, such as name, address, e-mail address, purchase history and payment data, without your separate consent only for the purpose of providing our services and fulfilling and processing any contract concluded with you.
   3. Any use for advertising purposes is subject to your prior consent.

6. Recipients/categories of recipients of the personal data, third country data transfers, legitimate interests pursued by us in this regard

   1. We use your personal data to optimize the processing of your order, to deliver the goods, to provide services and to process payment. For this purpose, we pass on your data to contracted service providers and, if necessary, to affiliated companies. For the purpose of payment processing, the necessary data is stored both on our server and on the servers of the companies commissioned by us to process payments.
   2. Your payment data will be transmitted to the relevant payment service provider depending on the payment method you have selected. The payment service provider is responsible for your payment data.
   3. If we make advance payments, e.g. in the case of a purchase on account, we may obtain credit information based on mathematical and statistical procedures from BS PAYONE GmbH, Lyoner Straße 9, D-60528 Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in order to safeguard our legitimate interests. For this purpose, we transmit the personal data required for a credit check to BS PAYONE GmbH and use the information received on the statistical probability of a payment default for a balanced decision on the establishment, execution or termination of the contractual relationship. All information on data processing by BS PAYONE GMBH can be found here:  https://www.bspayone.com/downloads/BSPAYONE_Information-zur-Datenverarbeitung-gem-Art14-DSGVO.pdf
   4. The credit report may contain probability values (score values) that are calculated on the basis of scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedures and whose calculation includes address data. Your interests worthy of protection are taken into account in accordance with the statutory provisions.
   5. The credit check is carried out by the following companies: BS GmbH, Lyoner Straße 9, D-60528 Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Germany, Fon: +49 431 25968-200, Fax: +49 431 25968-1200, MerchantService@bspayone.com, www.bspayone.com
   6. A similarity calculation in percentage values can be used to determine whether the person and address are known to the credit agency. This check serves to protect against the misuse of third-party data by unauthorized persons (“data theft”), e.g. the use of third-party bank data when placing orders by telephone or online. Address verification is carried out by:  Deutsche Post AG Central Additional and Special Services Letter D- 53250 Bonn www.deutschepost.de
   7. You can obtain information from the above-mentioned providers and credit agencies at any time about your data stored there.
   8. Unless otherwise stated in this declaration, we do not intend to transfer your data to third countries.

7. Encrypted payment transactions

   Payment transactions via the usual means of payment (Visa/Mastercard, Paypal, SEPA, giropay, Sofort Überweisung, direct debit) are made via an encrypted SSL connection. You can recognize such a connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from http:// to https:// and by the lock symbol in your browser line. With encrypted communication, the payment data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

8. Legal basis for the processing

   1. We process your personal data on the basis of the following legal bases:
      
      1. the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party.
      2. You have given your consent to the processing of your personal data.

9. Duration for which the personal data is stored

   If your data is no longer required, e.g. for billing purposes, it will be deleted or blocked and deleted after expiry of the retention obligations under tax and commercial law.

10. Existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority

    Without prejudice to any other legal remedies, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority in your country if you consider that we have infringed applicable data protection law in the processing of your personal data. This means the country where you usually reside, where you work or where the alleged infringement occurred.

11. Use of Google analytics

    This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc (“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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google 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. 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 IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 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 at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
    You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

12. Newsletter data

    You have the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter. If you subscribe, we will send you regular information about our offers.
    We need your e-mail address for this. The provision of any other data is voluntary and will only be used to address you personally.
    We use the so-called double opt-in procedure to subscribe to our newsletter. This means that you will first receive an e-mail in which we ask you to confirm your registration.
    We want to prevent registrations being made with third-party e-mail addresses.
    We use the services of Klaviyo, Inc., 60 South Street, Suite 910, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA to send our newsletter and to analyze user behavior in our online store.
    You can find Klaviyo’s privacy policy at: https://www.klaviyo.com/privacy
    Klaviyo is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement. This agreement offers a guarantee that European data protection principles are complied with.
    You can of course unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. You will find a link at the end of each newsletter that you just need to click on.