Information on data processing for this website in accordance with Article 13 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when collecting personal data from the data subject
(Version: GDPR 2.1 of March 2024)

DEUTSCHES EDELSTEINHAUS DEH GmbH is responsible for this website and, as a provider of a telemedia service, is required to inform you at the beginning of your visit about the type, scope, and purposes of the collection and use of personal data in a precise, transparent, understandable, and easily accessible form, using clear and simple language. This information must be available to you at all times.

We place the utmost importance on the security of your data and compliance with data protection regulations. The processing of personal data is subject to the provisions of current European and national laws.

The following data protection information explains how we handle your personal data and how you can contact us:

GERMAN GEMSTONE HOUSE DEH GmbH
Kogenwiese 5,
88279 Amtzell,
Germany.
Managing Directors: Alexander Streeb and Oliver Kleimaier.
Telephone: +49 (0) 7520 – 913929-0

Email: info@deutsches-edelsteinhaus.com

Our Data Protection Officer
Sven Lenz
German Data Protection Law Firm – Data Protection Law Firm Lenz GmbH & Co. KG
Bahnhofstraße 50
87435 Kempten
Germany

For questions regarding data protection or other data protection-related concerns, please feel free to send an email to the following email address: datenschutz@deutsches-edelsteinhaus.com

A. General

For the sake of clarity, we have refrained from gender-specific differentiation. In the interest of equal treatment, the corresponding terms apply to all genders. The meaning of the terms used, such as "personal data" or its "processing," can be found in Article 4 of the GDPR.

The personal data processed within the scope of this website includes
– inventory data (e.g. names and addresses of customers),
– usage data (e.g. pages visited on our website) and
– content data (e.g. entries in online forms).

B. Specific

Data protection notice

We guarantee that we will only process your data in connection with handling your requests, for internal purposes, and to provide the services or content you have requested.

Principles of data processing

We process your personal data only in compliance with the relevant data protection regulations and on the basis of the following legal grounds:

-Processing for the performance of our services and implementation of contractual measures
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR

-Processing for the fulfillment of our legal obligations
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR

-Consent
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) and Art. 7 GDPR

-Processing for the purposes of our legitimate interests
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR

Data Transfer to Third Parties:

Please note that when using our website, data may be transferred if you select offered services via the "cookie consent tool" provided on the website. If you do not select a service, no data will be transferred to third parties.

These service providers may gain access to your data as part of website hosting or the additional services we use. We have described which web host we use in this privacy policy.

If we use subcontractors to provide our services, we take appropriate legal precautions as well as corresponding technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of personal data in accordance with the relevant legal regulations.

Data transfer to a third country or an international organization:

A third country is understood to be a country where the GDPR is not directly applicable law. This generally includes all countries outside the EU or the European Economic Area.

Please note that when using our website, data may be transferred to a third country if you select offered services via the "cookie consent tool" provided on the website. If you do not select a service, no data will be transferred to a third country.

For data transfers to the USA: Since July 2023, the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Data Privacy Framework) designating the USA as a third country with a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. This adequacy decision can now serve as a basis for data transfers to certified organizations in the USA.

The US services used are certified under the Data Privacy Framework. Details can be found with each individual service.

Storage period of your personal data:

We adhere to the principles of data minimization and data avoidance. This means we only store your data for as long as necessary to fulfill the aforementioned purposes or as required by the various retention periods stipulated by law. If the respective purpose ceases to apply or after the corresponding periods have expired, your data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with legal regulations.

Contacting Us:

When you contact us electronically (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is processed. The information you provide will be stored solely for the purpose of processing your inquiry and for any follow-up questions.

We would like to inform you of the legal basis for this:
• Processing for the performance of our services and implementation of contractual measures
Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR

Please be aware that emails can be intercepted or altered without authorization or detection during transmission. Furthermore, please note that we use software to filter unwanted emails (spam filter). Emails may be rejected by the spam filter if they are incorrectly identified as spam due to certain characteristics.

What rights do you have?

a) Right of access
You have the right to obtain information free of charge about your stored data. Upon request, we will inform you in writing which personal data we have stored about you. This also includes the origin and recipients of your data, as well as the purpose of the data processing.

b) Right to rectification
You have the right to have your data stored with us corrected if it is inaccurate. You can also request a restriction of processing, e.g., if you contest the accuracy of your personal data.

c) Right to blocking
Furthermore, you can have your data blocked. To ensure that a block on your data can be respected at any time, this data must be kept in a blocking file for verification purposes.

d) Right to erasure
You can request the erasure of your personal data, provided there are no legal retention obligations. If such an obligation exists, we will restrict the processing of your data upon request. If the relevant legal requirements are met, we will also erase your personal data without receiving your request.

e) Right to data portability
You are entitled to request from us the provision of the personal data transmitted to us in a format that allows transmission to another entity.

f) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
You have the option of lodging a complaint with one of the data protection supervisory authorities.

The data protection authority responsible for us is:

The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Württemberg
Postal address: P.O. Box 10 29 32, 70025 Stuttgart, Germany
Street address: Lautenschlagerstraße 20, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany
Telephone +49 711 615541–0
Fax: +49 711 615541–15
E-mail: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de
Web: https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de

You can open the complaint form via the following link:
https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/online-beschwerde

Note: A complaint can also be lodged with any data protection supervisory authority within the EU.

g) Right to object
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Article 6(1)(e) and (f); this also applies to profiling based on those provisions.

DEUTSCHES EDELSTEINHAUS DEH GmbH will then no longer process your personal data unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

If personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. In the event of such an objection, we will no longer process your personal data for direct marketing purposes. To do so, simply send us an email.

h) Right of withdrawal
You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your data at any time with effect for the future without giving reasons. This withdrawal will not result in any disadvantages for you. To do so, simply send us an email.

However, such a revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out up to the time of the revocation on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 letter a) GDPR.

To exercise your data subject rights, please send us an email to the following address: datenschutz@deutsches-edelsteinhaus.com

Protection of your personal data

We take contractual, technical and organizational security measures in accordance with the state of the art to ensure that data protection laws are complied with and to protect the processed data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons.

Security measures include, in particular, the encrypted transmission of data between your browser and our server. This is achieved using 256-bit SSL (AES 256) encryption technology.

Your personal data is protected in accordance with the following points (excerpt):

a) Maintaining the confidentiality of your personal data
To maintain the confidentiality of your data stored with us, we have implemented various measures for access control.

b) Maintaining the integrity of your personal data
To maintain the integrity of your data stored with us, we have implemented various measures for data transfer and input control.

c) Maintaining the availability of your personal data
To maintain the availability of your data stored with us, we have implemented various measures for order and availability control.

The security measures in place are continuously improved in line with technological developments. Despite these precautions, due to the inherent insecurity of the internet, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmission to our website. Therefore, any data transmission you undertake is at your own risk.

Protection of Minors:

Personal information may only be provided to us by individuals under the age of 16 with the explicit consent of their legal guardians. This data will be processed in accordance with this privacy policy.

Server log files:

The provider of these pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information includes:

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

This data will not be combined with other data sources.

The legal basis for data processing is our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

Cookies
are small text files that are stored locally in your internet browser's cache. Cookies enable, for example, the recognition of your internet browser. These files are used to help the browser navigate the website and to fully utilize all its functions.

Cookie Consent Tool
To obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent, we use a so-called "cookie consent tool".

This website uses the Borlabs cookie consent tool from the provider Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg ("Borlabs").

The "Cookie Consent Tool" is displayed to users upon visiting the website as an interactive interface, allowing them to grant consent for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications by ticking boxes. Using this tool, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if the user grants the corresponding consent by ticking the boxes. This ensures that such cookies are only placed on the user's device if consent has been given.

This tool uses technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. No personal user data is processed in this process.

If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website.

A further legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. As the data controller, we are legally obligated to make the use of cookies that are not technically necessary dependent on the respective user's consent.
Further information about the operator and the settings options of the cookie consent tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

Website Hosting:

We booked the hosting of our website and the display of the page content through the agency: Allgäu Solution GmbH, Schlingenerstr. 4, 86842 Türkheim

These in turn use the system of the following provider: Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany

All data collected on our website is processed on the provider's servers.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

WordPress Plugins

We use the following WordPress plugins (Automattic Inc.
60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110 or Aut O'Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd.
Grand Canal Dock, 25 Herbert Pl, Dublin, D02 AY86) on our website.

WPML: enables us to create a multilingual website. The selected language is stored in a cookie.
This processing is based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Our legitimate interest lies in displaying the user's preferred language.

Smash Balloon: Display of social media content on the website (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube).
For the processing of your data as described above, we obtain your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website, via the "Privacy Settings" link, or via the button in the website's privacy policy.

For more information, please see the WordPress privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/#controllers-and-responsible-companies

Content Delivery Network:

This website uses the Bootstrap CDN service, powered by jsDelivr and sponsored by Cloudflare, Fastly, NS1, BunnyCDN & Dmitriy Akulov. This is a service provided by Volentio JSD Limited (jsDelivr), Suite 2a1, Northside House, Mount Pleasant, Barnet, England, EN4 9EB.

Bootstrap CDN is a service that hosts CSS and JS files from Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Bootswatch and Bootstrap Icons, enabling quick and easy integration into web projects.

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website, via the "Privacy Settings" link, or via the button in the website's privacy policy.

Volentio JSD Limited (jsDelivr) is the recipient of your personal data and acts as a data processor for us. This is in our legitimate interest, as defined in Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, of not operating our own Content Delivery Network. Your personal data will be stored by Volentio JSD Limited (jsDelivr) for as long as necessary for the purposes described.

Further information can be found in the privacy policy of Volentio JSD Limited (jsDelivr) at https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms/privacy-policy

Google Web Fonts

This website uses web fonts provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google") for the uniform display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers.

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website, via the "Privacy Settings" link, or via the button in the website's privacy policy.

This may also involve the transfer of personal data to the servers of Google LLC in the USA. In this way, Google learns that our website was accessed via your IP address and can combine this information with other data stored about you by Google.

Since July 2023, the European Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Data Privacy Framework) designating the USA as a third country with a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. This adequacy decision can now serve as a basis for data transfers to certified organizations in the USA. According to the list of certified companies published by the US Department of Commerce, Google LLC is listed as a certified company.

Webinaris:

We use the solution provided by Webinaris GmbH, Bussardstr. 5, 82166 Gräfelfing, to conduct our webinars and online presentations. This platform is designed for hosting webinars, making it easier for companies to reach their audience, generate leads, and
deliver impactful presentations.

To participate in our webinars/online lectures, registration for our newsletter is required.
In return, I will receive the access details for the webinar "The Greatest Dangers to Your Assets."
By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data for the newsletter in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a) GDPR. You can find further information about the newsletter in the relevant section of this privacy policy.

Newsletter registration and webinar participation are handled via a registration form linked to Webinaris. If you register via this form or participate in one of our webinars, Webinaris will process the following data from you on our behalf:

• Email address
• Browser and system data
• IP address
• Language
• Time zone
• All other personal data that you provide in connection with the webinar, for example in the chat or in a survey within the webinar,
• possibly further data that may be requested by the user from an interested party when registering for a webinar, such as first name, last name, telephone number or a customer number
• Usage data resulting from the use of OP webinars (e.g. access figures, application history, registration for and participation in a webinar, access to specific pages, etc.)

When you register for one of our webinars/online lectures via Webinaris, we can determine if and for how long you participated in the webinar, if and which chat messages you wrote to us in the webinar, and which emails you received from us regarding the webinar.

The processing of this webinar is primarily based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.

We base the processing of your data for reminders and storage in the system on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. This processing is based on our legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest lies in facilitating access to the seminar via the aforementioned provider.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Webinaris and implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Webinaris.

Further information can be found in Webinaris' privacy policy at: www.webinaris.com/datenschutzerklaerung

Appointment booking via Odoo:

We use the services of the following provider to offer an online appointment booking function: Odoo SA, Chaussée De Namur 40, 1367 Ramillies, Belgium.

For the purpose of scheduling appointments, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, we collect your first and last name, email address (for appointment confirmation/reminder), and telephone number (since this is a telephone appointment). In accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data is transmitted to the provider based on our legitimate interest in effective customer management and efficient appointment scheduling, and stored there for appointment organization. Data is also transferred to our CRM system for the centralized storage of prospective client data.

We use affiliate cookies on the appointment booking page. These allow us to track where users come from. This information is also stored in our CRM.

For the use of this cookie, we obtain your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG via the “cookie consent tool” provided on the appointment booking page.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties. Further information can be found in Webinaris' privacy policy at: https://www.odoo.com/de_DE/privacy

Use of YouTube videos

We use the YouTube implementation function to display and play videos from the provider “YouTube”, which belongs to Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”).

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website, via the "Privacy Settings" link, or via the button in the website's privacy policy.

Data is transferred to a third country (in this case, the USA) or an international organization. Since July 2023, the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Data Privacy Framework) that designates the USA as a third country with a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. This adequacy decision can now serve as a basis for data transfers to certified organizations in the USA. According to the list of certified companies published by the US Department of Commerce, Google LLC is listed as a certified company.

According to YouTube, cookies are set to, among other things, collect video statistics, improve user experience, and prevent abuse. If you are logged into Google, your data will be directly associated with your account when you click on a video. If you do not want this association with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button.

Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and analyzes them. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and to exercise this right, you must contact YouTube. Regardless of whether the embedded videos are played, a connection to the Google network is established each time this website is accessed, which may trigger further data processing operations beyond our control. Further information on data protection at YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Videos from Vimeo:

Our website uses plugins from the video portal Vimeo, operated by Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Vimeo's servers. The plugin content is transmitted directly from Vimeo to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Vimeo receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Vimeo account or are not currently logged in to Vimeo.

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of withdrawal, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website, via the "Privacy Settings" link, or via the button in the website's privacy policy.

Data may be transferred to a third country (in this case, the USA) or an international organization. Since July 2023, the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Data Privacy Framework) that designates the USA as a third country with a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. This adequacy decision can now serve as a basis for data transfers to certified organizations in the USA. According to the list of certified companies published by the US Department of Commerce, Vimeo LLC is listed as a certified company.

If you are logged into Vimeo, Vimeo can directly associate your visit to our website with your Vimeo account. If you interact with the plugins (such as clicking the play button on a video), this information is also transmitted directly to a Vimeo server and stored there. If you do not want Vimeo to directly associate the data collected through our website with your Vimeo account, you must log out of Vimeo before visiting our website.

For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Vimeo, as well as your related rights and privacy settings, please refer to Vimeo's privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Use of Google Maps:

We use Google Maps (API) from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”) on this website. Google Maps is a web service for displaying interactive maps. Using this service allows us to show you our location and makes it easier for you to find directions.

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

To exercise your right to withdraw your consent, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website, via the "Privacy Settings" link, or via the button in the website's privacy policy.

Data is transferred to a third country (in this case, the USA) or an international organization. Since July 2023, the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Data Privacy Framework) that designates the USA as a third country with a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. This adequacy decision can now serve as a basis for data transfers to certified organizations in the USA. According to the list of certified companies published by the US Department of Commerce, Google LLC is listed as a certified company.

Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and analyzes them.

You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and to exercise this right, you must contact Google. If you do not agree to the future transfer of your data to Google in connection with the use of Google Maps, you can also completely deactivate the Google Maps web service by disabling JavaScript in your browser. Google Maps, and therefore the map display on this website, will then be unavailable.

You can view Google's terms of service at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html, and the additional terms of service for Google Maps at: https://www.google.com/intl/de_US/help/terms_maps.html

Detailed information on data protection in connection with the use of Google Maps can be found on Google's website ("Google Privacy Policy"): https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

Google Analytics 4 (with cookies, without UserIDs, without Google Signals)

We use Google Analytics 4 on our website, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"). This allows us to analyze user behavior on our website.

By using Google Analytics 4, so-called "cookies" are used by default. Cookies are text files that are stored on your device and enable an analysis of your use of a website. The information collected by cookies about your use of the website (including the IP address transmitted by your device, truncated by the last digits, see below) is generally transmitted to a Google server, where it is stored and processed. This also involves the transfer of information to the servers of Google LLC, located in the USA, where the information and collected data are further processed for their own purposes. For the transfer of your data to the USA, we obtain separate consent in accordance with Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR and also point out the particular risk, as data protection rights are affected by such a transfer.

When using Google Analytics 4, the IP address transmitted by your device when you use the website is automatically shortened by removing the last digits and is only collected and processed in this way.

On our behalf, Google uses this and other information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on your website activities and usage behavior, and to provide us with other services related to your website and internet usage. The data collected through the use of Google Analytics 4 is stored for two months and then deleted.

Furthermore, Google Analytics 4 enables the creation of statistics with statements about the age, gender, and interests of website users via a special function called "demographic characteristics," based on an evaluation of interest-based advertising and the use of third-party information. This enables the identification and differentiation of website user groups for the purpose of targeted marketing efforts. However, data collected via the "demographic characteristics" function cannot be attributed to any specific person, including you personally. This data is stored for two months and then deleted.

All processing described above, in particular the setting of Google Analytics cookies for storing and reading information on the device you use to access the website, will only take place if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with Section 25 Para. 1 TTDSG. Without your consent, Google Analytics 4 will not be used during your use of the website. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please deactivate this service using the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google for our use of Google Analytics 4.

Data is transferred to a third country (in this case, the USA) or an international organization. Since July 2023, the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Data Privacy Framework) that designates the USA as a third country with a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. The adequacy decision can now serve as a basis for data transfers to certified organizations in the USA. According to the list of certified companies published by the US Department of Commerce, Google LLC is listed as a certified company.

Further legal information regarding Google Analytics 4, including a copy of the aforementioned standard contractual clauses, can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de and at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partnersites

Google Tag Manager:

We use the service called Google Tag Manager from Google. “Google” is a group of companies consisting of Google Ireland Ltd. (provider of the service), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, and Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, as well as other affiliated companies of Google LLC.

The Google Tag Manager is a support service and only processes personal data for technically necessary purposes. The Google Tag Manager ensures the loading of other components, which may in turn collect data. The Google Tag Manager does not access this data.

Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

To exercise your right to withdraw your consent, deactivate this service in the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website, via the "Privacy Settings" link, or via the button in the website's privacy policy.

Data is transferred to a third country (in this case, the USA) or an international organization. Since July 2023, the EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision (Data Privacy Framework) that designates the USA as a third country with a level of data protection comparable to that of the EU. This adequacy decision can now serve as a basis for data transfers to certified organizations in the USA. According to the list of certified companies published by the US Department of Commerce, Google LLC is listed as a certified company.

Newsletter:

When you subscribe to our email newsletter, we will regularly send you information about our offers. Personal data is collected for this purpose. The only mandatory information required to send you the newsletter is your email address. Providing any other information is voluntary and will be used to personalize our communications with you.

We use this data for our own advertising purposes in the form of email newsletters and for tracking, provided you have expressly consented to this as follows: "Yes, I would like to subscribe to the newsletter and agree to its tracking!"

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for sending our newsletter. This means that we will only send you an email newsletter after you have explicitly confirmed that you consent to receiving it. We will then send you a confirmation email asking you to click on the corresponding link to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter in the future.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a) GDPR. When you subscribe to the newsletter, we store your IP address, which is registered by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), as well as the date and time of registration, in order to be able to trace any potential misuse of your email address at a later date.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by sending us a message to info@deutsches-edelsteinhaus.com. After you unsubscribe, your email address will be immediately deleted from our newsletter mailing list and added to a suppression list to ensure your withdrawal is respected.

Newsletter distribution via Brevo (Sendinblue):

Our email newsletters are distributed via the technical service provider Sendinblue GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin, to whom we transfer the data you provided when subscribing to the newsletter. This transfer is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and serves our legitimate interest in using an effective, secure, and user-friendly newsletter system. The data you entered for newsletter subscription (e.g., email address) is stored on Sendinblue's servers in the EU.

Sendinblue uses this information to send and statistically analyze newsletters on our behalf. For this analysis, the emails we send contain web beacons or tracking pixels, which are single-pixel image files stored on our website. This allows us to determine whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links, if any, have been clicked. Technical information is also collected (e.g., time of access, IP address, browser type, and operating system). The data is collected exclusively in pseudonymized form and is not linked to your other personal data; direct identification of individuals is therefore impossible. This data is used solely for the statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses can be used to better tailor future newsletters to the interests of the recipients. If you wish to object to this data analysis for statistical evaluation purposes, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter.

We have entered into a data processing agreement with Sendinblue, which obliges Sendinblue to protect our customers' data and not to pass it on to third parties.

You can view Sendinblue's privacy policy here: https://de.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/

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We have integrated ProvenExpert rating seals on this website. The provider is Expert Systems AG, Quedlinburger Str. 1, 10589 Berlin, https://www.provenexpert.com.

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Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data as described above in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in conjunction with § 25 TTDSG.

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You can find further information in our privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend our privacy policy at short notice to ensure it always complies with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services. This may include, for example, the introduction of new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

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