Data Protection Notice - Data Protection Declaration

The Lifestyle Distribution GmbH, Raboisen 38, 20095 Hamburg, District Court (Amtsgericht) of Hamburg-Mitte, Companies’ Register number HRB 165195 provides contents and services under the domain www.lifestyleperfumes.eu. As the Lifestyle Distribution GmbH (in the following referred to as Provider) also processes personal data in the framework of the digital offers, it shall be explained in this declaration how personal data are treated within the framework of use of the website www.lifestyleperfumes.eu (in the following referred to as Website).

Our data protection officer can be reached under (gerhard.kaiser@cura.co.at).

1. Personal Data:

Personal data are individual details on personal or factual circumstances of the users, such as for example the address, name, email-address, telephone number and other information that enable to identify a person. Insofar as we collect such data, you will in the following be instructed on the purpose and the extent of the utilization of the data.

a. General Information Notice regarding the Handling of Personal Data

Personal data is processed if you  subscribe to a newsletter, if you contact us via email and if you request services via the contact form and if you buy a voucher via the website. We analyse user behaviour using Google Analytics. Apart from our website, you may also use social media that is linked via the website. Specifically, we collect and use personal data during the following operations:

b. Recording of the use

We store use processes temporarily on the website in a log file and irrespective of what you do, even in case of use without registration or if you otherwise send us information. We thereby store the date, the time and the duration of the access to the pages of the portal, the IP address as well as the telecommunications provider enabling the access. The operating system of the computer via which access is initiated as well as the web browser via which the access is initiated are also stored.

Legal basis for the storage is a legitimate interest pursuant to art. 6 par. 1 lit. f of the GDPR in order to ensure the functionality of the page and in order to be able to carry out an error analysis in case of technical defects or attacks on the security of the website. Furthermore, the data is required to ensure the logging obligation for the opt-in procedure. The selection of the opt-in procedure saves the IP address of the user and the selected data protection setting.

2. Use of Cookies

Cookies are used to adjust the offers of the website for the user on the website, to facilitate usage of the website or to analyse the use of the website.

Generally, the browser automatically stores cookies on your computer. But you can store in the settings of your browser that your cookies are not stored or that the storage of cookies requires your consent.

You can delete cookies stored at any time in your browser under “Settings”. You may find information regarding the functioning of your browser under the help section of the browser.

To the extent that you do not allow that cookies are stored on your computer or insofar as you delete cookies, this may lead to the fact that you may not be able to use certain services of the offer at all or only to a limited extent.

Click here to reset your selected privacy settings.

Further information on cookies are provided by the Association Verband der Digitalen Wirtschaft e.V.: www.meine-cookies.org

3. Special possibilities to use our website:

We offer different possibilities on our website to get in contact with us or to receive information from us.

a. Contacting per email or via the contact form

If you contact us via a contact form or per email, we store the email communication until your request or the use has been completed, in order to respond to questions and to document the communication. To the extent that retention obligations under business law (6 years starting with the end of the year in which the operation was completed) or retention periods under tax law (10 years starting with the end of the year the operation was completed) exist, the data is stored after execution of your request and we restrict processing, if any.

In case contact is established via email, third parties may possibly take insight into the email if such is not encrypted. You can find out via your email provider if your emails can be encrypted or not.

Legal basis for the use of personal data that is transferred via email is art. 6 par. 1 lit. f of the GDPR, is the legitimate interest and the consent. In case the email contact aims at concluding a contract, the legal basis for processing, namely art. 6 par. 1 lit. b of the GDPR applies additionally.

4. Usage analysis for statistical purposes - Google Analytics

In order to optimize our website, to correct sources of error and to find out how visitors use the offer and in which period of time which parts were used, we use Google Analytics, a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. Google uses cookies to allow to analyse how you use the website.

The services of Google Analytics were enhanced with the code “anonymizelp”, an application for IP anonymization. Thereby, IP addresses are shortened to prevent that a link can be established to you. Due to the anonymization, your IP address will be shortened beforehand within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. In exceptional cases, it may occur that the full IP address is [sic] to a server of [sic]

The information on the use of our website, including your anonymized IP address, generated by the cookie used by Google Analytics is  also transmitted to a Google server located in the USA and is stored there.

On our behalf, Google will use this information to analyse the use of the website, to draw up reports on website activities and to provide further services to us related to the use of the website and of the internet. The IP address which is sent from your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data of Google.

You may prevent the storage of cookies making the settings in the browser described under clause 2 above, resulting in the respective restrictions in the utilisation of the website.

Alternatively to the above-mentioned plug-in or with mobile devices (e.g. Smart phones, tablets), you may set an opt-out cookie on your device or a block cookie, Deaktivate Google Analytics, which prevents the collection by Google Analytics on this website. This cookie functions only on this device, in this browser and has to be activated again when deleting the cookies.

For further information regarding Google Analytics and the topic data protection, please visit the link https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

5. Applications to improve user friendliness

a. Use of Google Web Fonts

This page uses so-called Web Fonts that are made available by Google to uniformly represent the font types. Whenever a page is called up, your browser loads the required web fonts in the cache memory of your browser in order to correctly display the texts and the font types. In case your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

For further information on Google Web Fonts, please visit: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and the data protection declaration of Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

6. Data Protection Provisions regarding the Use and Utilization of AddThis

The controller responsible for the processing has integrated components of the company AddThis on this website. AddThis is a so-called bookmarking provider. The service allows a simplified bookmarking of websites via buttons. By moving the mouse over the AddThis component or by clicking on it with the mouse, a list of bookmarking and sharing services is displayed. AddThis is used on more than 15 million websites and the buttons are displayed over 20 billion times per year according to the provider company.

The provider company of AddThis is the Company AddThis, Inc. 1595 Spring Hill Road, Suite 300, Vienna, VA 22182, USA.

Each time a single page of this website, which is operated by the controller responsible for the processing and in which an AddThis component is integrated, is called up, the internet browser on the IT-system of the data subject is automatically caused to download data from the website www.addthis.com through the respective AddThis component. Within the framework of this technical procedure, AddThis gains knowledge of the visit and on the fact which specific single page of this website  is used by the IT system used by the data subject. Moreover, AddThis gains knowledge on the IP address of the computer system of the data subject, assigned by the internet service provider (ISP), the type o browser, the browser language, the website called up prior to our website as well as the time of the visit of our website. AddThis uses this data to create anonymized user profiles. The data and information transmitted to AddThis this way enable the company AddThis itself as well as the affiliated companies of AddThis or its partner companies to directly address visitors of the websites of the controller responsible for the processing with personalized and interest-related advertising.

AddThis displays personalised and interest-based advertisement based on a cookie set by the company. This cookie analyses the individual surfing behaviour of the IT-system used by the data subject. The cookie stores the visits of the websites originating from the computer system.

The data subject may prevent the placement of cookies through our website, as described above, at any time by making a respective setting in the internet browser used and thereby permanently objects to the placement of cookies. Such a setting in the internet browser used would also prevent that AddThis places a cookie in the IT-system of the data subject. Furthermore, cookies already placed by AddThis may be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs.

Moreover, the data subject has the possibility to permanently object to the processing of personal data by AddThis. For this purpose, the data subject has to push the opt-out button under the link http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out , which places an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie placed when objecting is deposited in the IT-system used by the data subject. If cookies are deleted from the system of the data subject after objecting, the data subject has to call up the link again and place a new opt-out cookie.

When placing the opt-out cookie, the possibility however exists that the website of the controller responsible for processing  cannot be used to its full extent by the data subject anymore.

The data protection provisions of AddThis applicable are available under http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.

7. The integration of social networks in www.lifestyleperfumes.eu

Different functions of the website are linked to other providers, such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, Twitter, via graphics that do not transmit any data to social networks in the first place. If you click on this graphics as user, you thereby activate the link to the chosen social network and then transfer your information to the social network.

a. Facebook

If you click on the Facebook graphics (pictogram with “f”), you convey to your Facebook network (Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland) that you like a contribution on our page. When clicking on the graphics, you activate the transfer process. Thereby, personal data, such as IP address of your computer, your user’s behaviour are sent to the servers of Facebook in the USA and you openly display that you like our article. Facebook will eventually collect further data, a fact we have however no knowledge of. For further information on how Facebook handles your data, please visit the following link: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not want that Facebook stores any data on your visit of our website, you should log out with Facebook and then delete the cookies in the browser to be used.

c. Instagram

We have integrated a button (pictogram with a little photo camera) on the website which is linked with Instagram when activating the pages. Instagram is an application to share photos and pictures. This offer is provided by Instagram Inc. (1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA). Your data is thereby transferred to Instagram to the USA.

If you are logged in with your Instagram account, you can link in particular pictures of www.lifestyleperfumes.eu with your Instagram profile when clicking on the button “contents”. Instagram may thereby link the visit of our page with your user account and record such. We have no influence on how Instagram will handle your personal data. For further information on the handling of your personal data, please refer to the data protection regulation of Instagram: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/

If you do not want that Instagram stores any data when visiting our website, you have to log out there and delete the cookies in the browser used.

8. Security Measures

We endeavour to permanently ensure the security of the personal data that is stored with us using suitable technical and organisational measures and by continually developing the website.

9. Rights of the User Access, Objection, Deletion and Blocking of Personal Data

You have different so-called rights of the data subject in connection with your personal data you can assert against us. You may at any time request to obtain access to the data stored with us regarding your person, besides you may request that incorrect data is rectified, further processing thereof is restricted or that it is deleted. You have the right to demand that data is ported to a third party.

Pursuant to art. 21 of the GDPR, the right to object against the processing of your data, in particular if there is a legitimate interest that we process your data.

The deletion is however only then permissible to the extent that there are no retention obligations to the contrary. In these cases, the deletion of personal data is replaced by the blocking of this data. In case you have any questions regarding the use of your personal data or in case you wish that your data is deleted, please contact the responsible body of the controller pursuant to clause 9. Please understand that depending on how you contact us we can only satisfy these rights if we can unambiguously identify you.

If you want to complain on how your personal data is handled, you have the right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority competent regarding the processing of personal data by us. The supervisory body competent is the Data Protection Officer of the Land of Lower Saxony (Landesdatenschutzbeauftragter für Niedersachsen) https://www.lfd.niedersachsen.de/wir_ueber_uns/kontakt/kontakt-56137.html

10. Responsible Body of the Controller

The Lifestyle Distribution GmbH, Raboisen 38, 20095 Hamburg, District Court (Amtsgericht) of Tostedt Companies’ Register number HRB 203119, represented by the managing director Hannes Kohl, is the body of the controller responsible in the sense of the data protection law. When asserting your rights in accordance with clause 6, please contact:

datenschutz@lifestyle-distribution.de
Telephone: +40 3202 717 0

We will change this data protection declaration to the extent we change the website or to the extent the initial legal situation changes. We would kindly ask you to keep informed in regular intervals on the modifications.

Data Protection Declaration as of May 2018