Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 04, 2024

1. Data Protection at a Glance

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. When we refer to your “personal data” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information that identifies, describes, relates to, references or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you. We may also collect other information generated when you use our Site or Services that is not linked or otherwise associated with you, and such information is not subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Depending on how your use our Site and/or our Services, we may directly collect the following types of personal data from you:

  • your name;
  • e-mail address;
  • shipping address;
  • billing address;
  • credit card account number;
  • IP address;
  • telephone number; and

online identifiers you use, such as your username, social media handles, and other similar types of identifiers. Detailed information on data protection can be found in the privacy policy listed below this text.

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Responsible for the data collections and processing on this website is the website operator:

Stefan Hermann
Bäderstrasse 4
72285 Pfalzgrafenweiler
Germany

info[(at]therighthow.com
+49 170 77 098 75

More information about the operator is in the website’s imprint.

How do we collect your personal data?

Your personal data is collected when you provide it to us. This may include data that you enter into a contact form, for example. Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. This primarily includes technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your personal data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your personal data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at the address given in the imprint at any time. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

2. General and Mandatory Information

DATA PROTECTION

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations as well as this data protection declaration.

When you use this website, certain personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and how we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We would like to point out that data transfer on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. It is not possible to provide complete protection against access by third parties.

WITHDRAWAL OF YOUR CONSENT TO DATA PROCESSING

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. All you need to do is send us an e-mail. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

RIGHT OF APPEAL TO THE COMPETENT SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY

In the event of data protection infringements, the person concerned has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in data protection matters is the data protection commissioner of the federal state in which our company has its registered office. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY

You have the right to have data which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract, transmitted to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the data to be transferred directly to another data controller, this will only be done to the extent that this is technically feasible.

SSL OR TLS ENCRYPTION

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries, which you send to us as the website operator. You can recognise a secure connection by the browser’s address bar changing from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the information you send to us cannot be read by third parties.

INFORMATION, BLOCKING, DELETION

In accordance with the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about the personal data stored about you, its origin and recipient, and the purpose of the data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data. You can contact us at any time for this purpose, as well as for any other questions regarding personal data, at the address given in the imprint.

OBJECTION TO ADVERTISING E-MAILS

The use of contact data published in the context of the imprint obligation for the transmission of not expressly requested advertisement and information material is hereby contradicted. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

3. Data Collection on Our Website

COOKIES

Some of the web pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit.

You can set your browser to inform you before cookies are placed, to accept cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to prevent the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally, or to automatically delete cookies when you close your browser. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

Cookies that are necessary for the execution of electronic communication or for the provision of certain functions that you have requested (e.g. contact form or download form) are permitted on the basis of Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically faultless and optimised provision of its services.

SERVER LOG FILES

If any personal data is collected, the provider of these pages collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are

  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of server request
  • IP address

A combination of this data with other data sources is not undertaken.

The basis for data processing is Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f DSGVO, which allows the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or for pre-contractual measures.

CONTACT FORM

If you send us an enquiry via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, are stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for any subsequent enquiries. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of the data entered in the contact form is therefore carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time. To do so, simply send us an e-mail. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the time of revocation shall remain unaffected by the revocation.

The data you have entered in the contact form will remain with us until you ask us to delete it, until you revoke your consent to storage or until the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your enquiry has been dealt with). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

INFORMATION FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Our Service may include interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each an “SNS”). If you connect to a SNS through the Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on that SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

4. Sharing of Information

    We do not share your personal data with third parties except in the following circumstances:

  • Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may share your personal data with our affiliates and subsidiaries with the understanding that they will treat such information consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Third Party Service Providers. We may share your personal data with our third party vendors, consultants and other service providers who work for us and need access to your information provide you with products, services, or information that you request. For example, we use Cleverreach (https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/) for newsletter purposes.
  • Other Third Parties. We may share your personal data with appropriate third parties if we believe it is necessary, in our reasonable discretion, to (a) comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements; (b) protect the rights and property of us, our agents, customers, members, and others including to enforce our agreements, policies and terms of use; or (c) in an emergency to protect the personal safety of SSI, its customers, or any person.
  • With Your Consent. We may share your personal data with third parties where you have provided consent to such sharing.

We may also share aggregated anonymous or de-identified information. When we use the term “anonymous data”, we are referring to data and information that does not permit you to be identified or identifiable, either alone or when combined with any other information available to a third party. We may create anonymous data from the personal data we receive about you and other individuals whose personal data we collect. Anonymous data might include analytics information and information collected by us using cookies. We make personal data into anonymous data by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We use this anonymous data to analyze usage patterns in order to make improvements to our services.

5. Newsletter

NEWSLETTER DATA

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we require an email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you agree to receive the newsletter. Other data is not collected or is only collected on a voluntary basis. We use these data exclusively for sending the requested information and do not pass them on to third parties.

The data entered in the newsletter registration form will only be processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and e-mail address as well as their use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The lawfulness of data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.

The data provided by you for the purpose of receiving the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the members’ area) remain unaffected by this.

CLEVERREACH

This website uses CleverReach for the sending of newsletters. The provider is CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG, Mühlenstr. 43, 26180 Rastede. CleverReach is a service that can be used to organise and analyse the sending of newsletters. The data (e.g. e-mail address) provided by you in order to receive the newsletter will be stored on the servers of CleverReach in Germany or Ireland.

Our CleverReach newsletter enables us to analyse the behaviour of the newsletter recipients. Among other things, it is possible to analyse how many recipients opened the newsletter message and how often which link in the newsletter was clicked on. With the help of so-called conversion tracking, it can also be analysed whether a previously defined action (e.g. the purchase of a product on our website) took place after the link in the newsletter was clicked. Further information on data analysis by the CleverReach newsletter is available at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/funktionen/reporting-und-tracking/.

The data processing takes place on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The lawfulness of data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation.

If you do not wish to receive an analysis from CleverReach, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide you with a link in each newsletter message.

The data provided by you for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted from our servers as well as from the servers of CleverReach after you unsubscribe from the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. e-mail addresses for the member area) remain unaffected by this.

You can find more details in the CleverReach Privacy Policy at: https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.

Conclusion of a contract for data processing

We have concluded a contract for data processing with CleverReach and fully comply with the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using CleverReach.

6. Plugins and tools

YOUTUBE

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The site is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged in to your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behaviour with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

You can find further information on the handling of user data in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

GOOGLE WEB FONTS

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the standardised display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its cache in order to display text and fonts correctly.

To do this, the browser you use must connect to Google’s servers. In this way, Google is informed that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google web fonts is in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

7. Online marketing and affiliate programmes

AMAZON AFFILIATE PROGRAM

The operators of the pages take part in the Amazon EU partner programme. Our pages contain advertising and links to the Amazon.co.uk website through Amazon, which enables us to earn money by reimbursing us for advertising costs. Amazon uses cookies to track the origin of orders. This allows Amazon to see that you have clicked on the affiliate link on our website.

The storage of “Amazon cookies” takes place on the basis of Art. 6 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in this, as the cookies are the only way to determine the amount of his affiliate commission.

Further information on the use of data by Amazon can be found in Amazon’s privacy policy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GX7NJQ4ZB8MHFRNJ

8. Final provisions

Changes to This Policy. We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will change the “Effective Date” date above. If we make any material change(s) to the Policy, we will post a notice on our Site prior to such changes(s) taking effect. Your continued use of the Site and/or any of our Services after the changes have been made will constitute your acceptance of the changes. Therefore, please read any such notice carefully. If you do not wish to continue using the Site or our Services under the new version of this Privacy Policy, please stop using the Site and our Services.