1) Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the controller
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we inform you about how your personal data is handled when you use our website. Personal data refers to all data with which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The controller for data processing on this website, in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is Warentest Hamburg Group, Feiler-Brandt-Straße 21, 80331 Munich, Germany, Email: tagler.simon@gmx.de, Phone: +49 152 78 93 478
The controller responsible for processing personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
1.3 This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.2) Data collection when you visit our website
When you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
– Our visited website
– Date and time of access
– Amount of data sent in bytes
– Source/referrer from which you reached the page
– Browser used
– Operating system used
– IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.3) Cookies
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information to an individual extent, such as browser and location data and IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie.
If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the execution of the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the website visit.
We may work with advertising partners who help us make our website more interesting for you. For this purpose, in this case, cookies from partner companies (third-party cookies) are also stored on your hard drive when you visit our website. If we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected in the following paragraphs.
Please note that you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html
Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.4) Contacting us
When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been finally processed. This is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been finally clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.5) Online marketing
Use of Google Ads Conversion Tracking
This website uses the online advertising program "Google Ads" and, within Google Ads, the conversion tracking of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). We use the Google Ads offer to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites with the help of advertising materials (so-called Google Adwords). With regard to the data of the advertising campaigns, we can determine how successful the individual advertising measures are. We pursue the goal of showing you advertising that is of interest to you, making our website more interesting for you and achieving a fair calculation of the advertising costs incurred.
The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. These cookies usually expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across the websites of Google Ads customers. The information obtained with the help of the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Google Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn 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. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can block this use by deactivating the Google conversion tracking cookie via your internet browser under "User settings". You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. We use Google Ads based on our legitimate interest in targeted advertising in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. When using Google Ads, personal data may also be transmitted to Google LLC servers in the USA.
Further information on Google's privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
You can permanently object to the setting of cookies by Google Ads Conversion Tracking by downloading and installing the Google browser plug-in available at the following link:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de
Please note that certain functions of this website may not be usable or only to a limited extent if you have deactivated the use of cookies.
As far as legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website or alternatively follow the option described above for making an objection.6) Web analysis services
Google (Universal) Analytics
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). Google (Universal) Analytics uses so-called "cookies", which are text files that are stored on your device and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including the shortened IP address) is usually transmitted to a Google server and stored there; this may also involve a transmission to Google LLC servers in the USA.
This website uses Google (Universal) Analytics exclusively with the "_anonymizeIp()" extension, which ensures the anonymization of the IP address by shortening it and excludes direct personal reference. Through the extension, your IP address is shortened beforehand 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 LLC server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services related to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google (Universal) Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
Google Analytics also enables, via a special function, the so-called "demographic features", the creation of statistics with statements about the age, gender and interests of website visitors based on an analysis of interest-based advertising and with the involvement of third-party information. This allows the definition and differentiation of user groups of the website for the purpose of target group-optimized alignment of marketing measures. However, data records collected via the "demographic features" cannot be assigned to a specific person.
All processing described above, in particular the setting of Google Analytics cookies for reading out information on the device used, will only be carried out if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. Without this consent, Google Analytics will not be used during your visit to the site.
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website. We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google for the use of Google Analytics, which obliges Google to protect the data of our website visitors and not to pass it on to third parties.
For the transfer of data from the EU to the USA, Google relies on so-called standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection in the USA.
Further information on Google (Universal) Analytics can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de7) Retargeting/ Remarketing/ Recommendation advertising
Criteo (Criteo SA)
On this website, information about the surfing behavior of website visitors is collected, stored and evaluated in pseudonymized form by Criteo SA, 32 Rue Blanche, 75009 Paris, France ("Criteo") using cookie text files, based on our legitimate interest in displaying personalized advertising in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Criteo analyzes surfing behavior using an algorithm and can then display targeted product recommendations as personalized advertising banners on other websites (so-called publishers). In no case can the collected data be used to personally identify the visitor to this website. No other use or transfer to third parties takes place.
To object to the collection of data and the creation of pseudonymized user profiles for the future, you can download the following so-called opt-out cookie:
Criteo Opt-out (https://www.criteo.com/de/privacy/)
Further information on Criteo's technology can be found in Criteo's privacy policy:
https://www.criteo.com/de/privacy/
As far as legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please follow the option described above for making an objection.Google Ads Remarketing
Our website uses the functions of Google Ads Remarketing, with which we advertise this website in the Google search results, as well as on third-party websites. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). For this purpose, Google sets a cookie in your device's browser, which automatically enables interest-based advertising by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you have visited. The processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Further data processing only takes place if you have agreed with Google that your internet and app browser history will be linked to your Google account and information from your Google account will be used to personalize ads that you view on the web. In this case, if you are logged in to Google during your visit to our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define audience lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, your personal data will be temporarily linked by Google with Google Analytics data to form target groups. When using Google Ads Remarketing, personal data may also be transmitted to Google LLC servers in the USA.
You can permanently deactivate the setting of cookies for ad preferences by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
Alternatively, you can find out about the setting of cookies and make settings in this regard at the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info. Finally, you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited. Further information and the privacy policy regarding advertising and Google can be viewed here:
https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
As far as legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please follow the option described above for making an objection.Outbrain Pixel
Within our online offer, we use the "Outbrain Pixel" of Outbrain, Inc., 39 W 13th St, New York 10011, USA ("Outbrain"). The Outbrain Pixel sets a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website via an advertisement or other campaign. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. If the user visits certain pages of this website, we can recognize that the user has clicked on the advertisement and has been redirected to this page (conversion page). If personal data is processed in this process, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in effective marketing.
The information collected with the help of the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics, i.e. to record how many users reach a conversion page after clicking on an ad. We thus learn the total number of users who clicked on our ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, we do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can object by deactivating the Outbrain Pixel cookie via your internet browser under user settings, checking whether advertising cookies from Outbrain are set in your browser and deactivating them.
As far as legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please follow the option described above for making an objection or use the deactivation options in the cookie settings of this website.
Further information on Outbrain's privacy policy can be found at https://www.outbrain.com/de/legal/privacy.Taboola
This website uses the retargeting technology of Taboola Inc., 16 Madison Square West 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA ("Taboola"). This enables visitors to our websites to be specifically shown further own or third-party content in the form of banners, based on their usage behavior, which is likely to correspond to the respective user's interest. This content is displayed based on a cookie-based analysis of previous usage behavior, but no personal data is stored.
If the collected and evaluated information has a personal reference, the processing takes place according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in displaying personalized page content and in market research.
To generally deactivate the use of cookies on your device, you can set your internet browser so that no more cookies can be placed on your device in the future, or already placed cookies are deleted. Disabling all cookies can lead to some functions on our websites no longer being executable.
You can permanently object to the setting of cookies for ad specifications by Taboola by using the option to set an opt-out cookie provided on the page linked below: https://www.taboola.com/privacy-policy#optout
Further information on Taboola's data protection can be found here: https://www.taboola.com/privacy-policy
As far as legally required, we have obtained your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR for the processing of your data described above. You can revoke your given consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, please follow the option described above to make an objection.Facebook Pixel for creating Custom Audiences with extended data matching (without cookie consent tool)
Within our online offering, the so-called "Facebook Pixel" of the social network Facebook is used in the mode of extended data matching, which is operated by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Quare, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook").
Based on explicit consent, when a user clicks on an advertisement placed by us on Facebook, the Facebook Pixel appends an addition to the URL of our linked page. This URL parameter is then written into the user's browser via a cookie after redirection, which our linked page itself sets. In addition, this cookie collects specific customer data such as the email address that we collect on our website linked to the Facebook advertisement during processes such as purchases, account logins, or registrations (extended data matching). The cookie is then read by Facebook Pixel and enables the forwarding of data, including specific customer data, to Facebook.
With the help of the Facebook Pixel with extended data matching, Facebook is able to precisely determine the visitors of our online offering as a target group for displaying advertisements (so-called "Facebook Ads"). Accordingly, we use the Facebook Pixel with extended data matching to display the Facebook Ads placed by us only to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online offering or who have certain characteristics (e.g., interests in certain topics or products, which are determined based on the visited websites) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called "Custom Audiences"). With the help of the Facebook Pixel with extended data matching, we also want to ensure that our Facebook Ads correspond to the potential interest of the users and do not appear annoying. This also allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by understanding whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion"). Compared to the standard version of Facebook Pixel, the extended data matching feature helps us better measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns by recording more attributed conversions.
All transmitted data is stored and processed by Facebook, so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook's Data Usage Policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). The data can enable Facebook and its partners to place advertisements on and off Facebook.
These processing operations are carried out exclusively upon explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
Consent to the use of the Facebook Pixel may only be given by users who are over 13 years old. If you are younger, we ask you to ask your guardians for permission.
The information generated by Facebook is usually transferred to a Facebook server and stored there; this may also involve a transfer to the servers of Facebook Inc. in the USA. You can revoke your consent at any time by deactivating Facebook Pixel tracking. For this purpose, you can set an opt-out cookie by clicking on the link below, which deactivates Facebook Pixel tracking:
Deactivate Facebook Pixel
This opt-out cookie only works in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click the link above again.8) Rights of the data subject
8.1 The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the data controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, about which we inform you below:
– Right of access according to Art. 15 GDPR: In particular, you have a right to information about your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if they were not collected from you by us, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for you, as well as your right to be informed about what safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR exist when your data are transferred to third countries;
– Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR: You have a right to immediate rectification of inaccurate data concerning you and/or completion of your incomplete data stored by us;
– Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR: You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if the requirements of Art. 17 para. 1 GDPR are met. However, this right does not exist, in particular, if the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
– Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data as long as the accuracy of your data contested by you is being verified, if you refuse the erasure of your data due to unlawful data processing and instead request the restriction of the processing of your data, if you need your data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims after we no longer need this data after the purpose has been achieved or if you have objected to the processing for reasons arising from your particular situation, as long as it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate grounds outweigh your rights;
– Right to notification according to Art. 19 GDPR: If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to communicate this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing to all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.
– Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request the transmission to another controller, insofar as this is technically feasible;
– Right to withdraw consent according to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR: You have the right to withdraw consent once given for the processing of data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of withdrawal, we will delete the data concerned without delay, unless further processing can be based on a legal basis for processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
– Right to lodge a complaint according to Art. 77 GDPR: If you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the GDPR, you have the right – without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy – to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
8.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE THE PROCESSING OF THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE THE PROCESSING OF THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.9) Duration of storage of personal data
The duration of storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if applicable – additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax law retention periods).
When personal data is processed on the basis of explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject revokes their consent.
If statutory retention periods exist for data processed within the framework of legal or quasi-legal obligations based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfillment or initiation of a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in continued storage.
When personal data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
When personal data is processed for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until the data subject exercises their right to object pursuant to Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration on specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.