Privacy policy

We are pleased about your visit to our website and thank you for your interest in our company.

With the following declaration, we inform you about the processing of personal data and about the rights to which you are entitled when using our online services.

1. Definitions

This privacy policy is based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It uses, among others, the following technical terms: personal data, data subject, processing, restriction of processing, controller, recipient, third party, consent, profiling. Information on how these terms are to be understood within the meaning of the GDPR can be found here.

2. Name and contact details of the controller responsible for processing

This privacy policy applies to data processing by:

Controller

Prestige Luxusuhren GmbH
Wendelsteiner Str. 6
91126 Schwabach
Germany

Managing Directors: Mario Bößl, Maximilian Schmidt
Commercial Register: Local Court of Nuremberg (AG Nürnberg), HRB 34130
VAT ID No.: DE312151647

Phone: +49 9122 999900-0
Fax: +49 9122 999900-9
Email: info@uhrinstinkt.de

3. Collection and processing of personal data, purpose of processing

You can generally visit our website anonymously, without telling us who you are.

When you visit our website, we automatically collect and store in the server's log files information that your browser transmits to us. This is:

• date and time of access
• IP address of the requesting computer
• the address of the page you last visited, from which you followed to the current page (referrer URL)
• browser type and version
• the operating system used

If you send us a message via the contact form, providing a valid email address is required so that we can answer the enquiry and know whom it is from. Further information may be provided voluntarily. The legal basis for data processing for the purpose of making contact is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. After your enquiry has been dealt with, the data are automatically deleted.

If you have subscribed to our newsletter, we collect, process and use the following personal data: form of address, first name, surname, email address. You may provide further voluntary information. The legal basis for data processing in connection with sending the newsletter is Art. 6(1) sentence 1(a) GDPR, on the basis of the consent you have voluntarily granted.

If you place orders via our website, we process the following personal data: form of address, first name, surname, street, house number, postal code, town. The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6(1) sentence 1(b) GDPR. The processing of your personal data serves exclusively the purpose of the proper handling of your order and the fulfilment of obligations under the purchase contract.

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• to be able to process, fulfil and handle your order
• for correspondence with you regarding invoicing
• to be able to address you personally when you subscribe to our newsletter
• to handle any warranty claims
• to give you the opportunity to contact us by filling in the contact form or by email

4. Disclosure of personal data

Without your express consent, your data are not passed on to third parties. Excepted from this are the service partners involved in the handling of the contract, such as the credit institution commissioned with payment processing and the logistics company commissioned with delivery. The scope of the data transmitted is limited here to the necessary minimum.

PayPal

When paying via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or "purchase on account" via PayPal, we pass on your payment data, as part of payment processing, to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal"). For the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or "purchase on account" via PayPal, PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check. PayPal uses the result of the credit check regarding the statistical probability of payment default for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit information may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit information, they are based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure. Among other things, address data are included in the calculation of the score values.

Further data protection information: PayPal Privacy Statement

Concardis

In the area of card payment (direct debit/girocard/credit cards), we work together with Concardis GmbH (Concardis), Helfmann Park 7, D-65760 Eschborn, represented by its managing directors Mark Freese, Jens Mahlke and Luca Zanotti. In this context, in addition to the purchase amount and date, card data are also transmitted to the aforementioned company. All payment data as well as data on any chargebacks that may occur are stored only for as long as they are needed for payment processing (including the handling of possible return debits and debt collection) and for the prevention of misuse. As a rule, the data are deleted at the latest 13 months after their collection. Beyond this, further storage may take place if and for as long as this is necessary to comply with a statutory retention period or to pursue a specific case of misuse. The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation.

You may request information and, where applicable, correction or deletion as well as the restriction of the processing of your data, and/or object to the processing of your data where applicable. If you have questions about data processing by Concardis or about asserting your aforementioned rights, you can contact the data protection officer: Datenschutzbeauftragter@concardis.com

5. Data subject rights

Pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether and, if so, which personal data concerning you are being processed. You also have the right to rectification or erasure or to restriction of processing, as well as a right to object to the processing and the right to data portability. Details on this can be found in Art. 16, 17, 18, 20 GDPR.

Pursuant to Art. 13(2) GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

6. Cookies

Insofar as you have set your browser to accept cookies, these are used by us on various pages. These are text files that are stored on your device and enable the exchange of data with our system. This exchange facilitates the use of our website, as certain information does not have to be repeated constantly.

• Session cookies: These are deleted again after the end of the browser session.
• Persistent cookies: These remain on your device so that your browser can be recognised again at the next session. This avoids re-entering a password or filling in forms with your customer data.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to decide individually whether to accept them. The functionality of the website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

7. Web analytics

7.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

You can prevent collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website:

Disable Google Analytics

Further information: Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

We point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "anonymizeIp" in order to ensure an anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

7.2 Google Analytics 4

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"), with which the use of websites can be analysed.

When 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) is usually transmitted to a Google server and stored and processed there.

All of the 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, takes place only if you have given us your express consent to this in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Without your consent, Google Analytics 4 is not used during your use of the website. You can revoke consent once given at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, please deactivate this service via the "cookie consent tool" provided on the website.

Further information: Google Privacy Policy | Partner sites

8. Social media plugins

8.1 Facebook plugin (Like button)

Plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, are integrated on our pages. You can recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like button" on our page.

Further information: Facebook plugins | Privacy policy

8.2 Instagram

Our pages use services of Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Insofar as you are logged in to your Instagram account, you can link the content of our page with your Instagram profile by clicking the Instagram button.

Further information: Instagram Privacy

8.3 Twitter

So-called social plugins ("plugins") of the microblogging service Twitter, operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA ("Twitter"), are used on our website.

Further information: Twitter Buttons | Privacy information

9. Data protection and third-party websites

The website may contain hyperlinks to and from third-party websites. If you follow a hyperlink to any of these websites, please note that we assume no responsibility or guarantee for third-party content or data protection conditions.

Should you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data by us, you can contact us at any time.

10. Google reCAPTCHA

For the purpose of protecting our web forms against misuse as well as against spam, we use the Google reCAPTCHA service within some forms on this website. Google reCAPTCHA is a service of Google Ireland Limited, a company registered and operated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

By verifying a manual entry, this service prevents automated software (so-called bots) from carrying out abusive activities on the website. This serves, pursuant to Art. 6(1) sentence 1(f) GDPR, to safeguard our legitimate interests — prevailing in the context of a balancing of interests — in protecting our website against misuse as well as in a trouble-free presentation of our online presence.

Further information on Google's privacy policy can be found here.