Privacy Notice

Area of application

This data privacy statement informs any user about the manner and extent of and reason for surveying, processing and using personal data by the provider:

ECS Falko Jahn e.K.
Am Wenigerflur 14
54498 Piesport

Tel.: 06507 - 9989954
Fax: 06507 - 9989956
E-Mail: mail@ecs-online.org

on this web page (referred to as „offer“ in the following).

Client Access Data / Server Log Files

The provider (respectively their webspace-provider) collects data from every client access to the offer (so-called server log files). Client access data includes:

name and URL of files accessed, date and time of access, quantity of transferred data, HTTP status code, type/ version of browser and operating system, website from which access initiated (previous URL), IP address of the requesting computer and name of client's internet access provider.

The provider uses the log data solely for the purpose of carrying out statistical evaluations that allow improving their quality of service and privacy and to optimize their products. The provider reserves the right to screen server log files after-the-fact, if concrete evidence justifies the suspicion of improper or unlawful use.

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display text and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the Google servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. Google Web Fonts are used in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offering. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

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

You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

PayPal
We offer the option of processing the payment transaction via the payment service provider PayPal (PayPal (Europe) S.à.rl. et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg). This corresponds to our legitimate interest in offering an efficient and secure payment method (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR). In this context, we pass on the following data to PayPal, insofar as this is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit b. DSGVO).

first name
surname
address
e-mail address
phone number
article
item prices

The processing of the data specified under this section is not required by law or contract. Without the transmission of your personal data, we cannot carry out a payment via PayPal. [You have the option to choose another payment method.]

PayPal carries out a credit check for various services such as payment by direct debit in order to ensure your willingness and ability to pay. This corresponds to PayPal's legitimate interest (according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR) and serves to execute the contract (according to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR). Your data (name, address and date of birth, bank account details) will be passed on to credit agencies for this purpose. We have no influence on this process and only receive the result of whether the payment was made, rejected or pending verification.

You can find more information on how to object to and remove PayPal from: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Your data will be stored until the payment has been processed. This includes the time it takes to process refunds, claims management and fraud prevention. [According to [§ 147 AO / § 257 HGB], we have a legal retention period of [X] years for the following documents: [ ]]

Processing of Personal Data

Personal data is all the information that make a person identifiable, such as their name, e-mail address or telephone number. Personal data will only be collected, used and forwarded by the provider to the extend permitted by law and with the user's permission. No personal data is forwarded to third parties without user permission.

Registration Function

Data acquired in the course of registration will be used for the purpose of carrying out our services. Users may be informed via e-mail of special offers or events relevant to registration such as changes to or extension of our product range or technical circumstances. The kind of data collected is comprehensible from the data input mask within the scope of registration. They are for example NAME, POSTAL ADDRESS, E-MAIL-ADDRESS, IP-ADDRESS.

Establishing Contact

When establishing contact to the provider (via contact form or email for example) the user's information will be stored for request processing purposes and in case follow-up questions might arise.

Comments and Contributions

When users leave comments or contributions on our blog, their IP address will be stored. This conduct is a measure for the provider's safety should a user post unlawful content in their comments or contributions (offensive language, insults, banned political propaganda, and so forth), since the provider themselves may be prosecuted for these comments or contributions and therefore have a reasonable interest in the contributor's identity.

Newsletter

With our newsletter we provide you with the latest information on our company and product range.

To receive our electronic newsletter, we need the user's current email address as well as the means to establish that they are the owner of that email address or that the owner of the email address agrees to receive the newsletter. No further information is required or collected. The information provided will be used solely for the distribution of our newsletter and not be forwarded to third parties.

With the subscription to our newsletter we will save the user's IP address and the date of subscription. This data is collected as evidence, should a third party use an email address unlawfully to subscribe to the newsletter without its owner's knowledge.

Users may withdraw their consent to the saving of the data, the email address, and its use to send the newsletter at any time. The cancelation is possible through a link provided in the newsletter, in the respective customer profiles on our web page or by contacting us via the contact details provided above.

Cookies

When users access the offer one or more cookies are stored on their hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of data, with a specific string of characters which will clearly identify a browser. Cookies enable the provider to improve the convenience and quality of their service, for example by storing user preferences and settings. Cookies cannot carry viruses and they cannot damage the user's hard drive.

It is possible to use the offer without cookies. Users may set their browser to decline the storing of cookies all together, limit it to certain web pages or have the browser notify them prior to storing a cookie. Users may delete cookies from their hard drive at any time through their browser's data protection feature. As a result usability and certain features of the offer may be limited.

Revocation, Adjustments, Corrections and Updates

Users are entitled to request information on the personal data stored relating to them free of charge. They are also entitled to have false information corrected and their personal data blocked and deleted unless statutory requirements to preserve records exist.