Source: https://www.trustedshops.co.uk/imprint/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 00:45:43+00:00

Document:
Trusted Shops GmbH is registered in the Brokers’ Register under Register Number [D-B6MZ-QKA67-38] as a licensed insurance agent pursuant to section 34d subsection 1 GewO (German Industrial Code) (www.vermittlerregister.info). The competent licensing and supervisory authority is the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Unter Sachsenhausen 10-26, 50667 Cologne (https://ihk-koeln.de/). Trusted Shops GmbH is a member the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
The professional regulations can be viewed and downloaded from www.gesetze-im-internet.de, the homepage operated by the German Federal Ministry of Justice together with juris GmbH.
Information on online dispute resolution pursuant to Article 14 para. 1 ODR Regulation: The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolutions (ODR) which can be accessed under http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. Consumers have the possibility to use this platform for resolving their disputes. We are ready to participate in extra-judicial dispute settlement proceedings before a consumer dispute resolution body.
You can visit our website without providing any personal information. With every visit of the website, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file which, for example, contains the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of the call, the amount of data transmitted and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the call. For the purpose of a shorter loading time we also use a Content Delivery Network (“CDN”) for delivering our web assets via web servers of that CDN provider, who is working for us by means of an order processing agreement. Access data is also collected accordingly on the provider’s web servers.
These access data are evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our services. This serves according to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit f GDPR the protection of our legitimate interests in the proper presentation of our offer that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.
If a service provider is based in the USA, it is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. As a result of this agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield. Further, we have agreed the application of EU standard data protection clauses with other service providers based in a country outside the EU or the EEA in order to provide suitable guarantees pursuant to art. 46 para. 2 lit. c GDPR.
We have engaged service providers for the technical processing of your inquiries on our behalf. These service providers are based in the USA and are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. As a result of this agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
When subscribing for Trusted Shops buyer protection, we need your e-mail address, the total purchase price, the selected payment method, purchase order number, your customer number (if you have one) and the name of the online shop from which you ordered the product.
Your data will be used within the scope of contract processing in accordance with art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR for the purpose of providing the Trusted Shops buyer protection to you.
With the buyer protection you also get access to the Trusted Shops customer login (My Trusted Shops). In the Trusted Shops customer login you can see your active and concluded buyer protection contracts, submit refund applications and submit or change ratings for your orders. Your e-mail address serves as identification and user name for access to My Trusted Shops. You have the possibility to personalize your membership account by voluntarily entering further personal data such as your name, place of residence and/or a profile picture in the Trusted Shops customer login or when submitting a rating.
Your submitted ratings can then be displayed with these additional details, although some details to protect your privacy are always only displayed in abridged form. Similarly, a summary of all assessments submitted can then be publicly retrieved. Your email address will not be publicly displayed. You can change or remove your personal data at any time in My Trusted Shops. You can also deactivate the public display of your profile there.
If you submit a rating via the Trusted Shops evaluation system, we and the evaluated company require your e-mail address within the framework of our user contract in accordance with art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR in order to ensure the validity and trustworthiness of the evaluation and to contact you in case of well-founded complaints and for verification of your submited rating. The e-mail address together with the order number and the evaluation submitted will be stored and submitted to the evaluated company for these purposes.
When you submit a product review, the URL of the product and the product image, the product name, the product SKU, GTIN and MPN, and the manufacturer are also saved.
You can link your Trusted Shops buyers account to your Facebook or Google account.
The data Trusted Shops receives from Facebook or Google will be used to help you design your shopper profile on the basis of your consent pursuant to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. Facebook receives the e-mail address from Trusted Shops the first time it is linked in order to identify you as a user, and afterwards only the ID that has been set as an authentication feature for you between the two systems. Facebook or Google does not receive any further data. You can unlink the accounts at any time and revoke the transfer of data with future effect by changing your settings on Facebook (here) or Google (here).
If you apply for a position at Trusted Shops via this website, personal data will be collected in our application portal for the purpose of handling the evaluation process in accordance with art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.
This portal is operated by a service provider who processes the data collected on its servers on our behalf .
If the newsletter is sent via a service provider based in the USA, it is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. As a result of this agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
To display our ratings collected, the Trusted Shops Trustbadge is integrated on some of our websites.
Pursuant to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our offer that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. The Trustbadge and the services advertised with it are an offer of Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15C, 50823 Cologne.
When the Trustbadge is called, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains e.g. your IP address, date and time of the call, transferred data volume and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the call. This access data is not evaluated and is automatically overwritten at the latest seven days after the end of your page visit.
For website analysis, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC (www.google.de). Pursuant to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an optimised presentation of our offer that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically collected information about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymisation on this website, the IP address is shortened prior to transmission within the Member States of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymous IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. After the end of the use of Google Analytics by us the data collected in this context will be deleted.
You can object to the collection and storage of data at any time with future effect by storing an opt-out cookie on your device or by suppressing the functionality of the tool with the help of an appropriate browser plugin, e.g. Ghostery.
Google Double Click is a service of Google LLC. (www.google.de). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. As a result of this agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
Google AdSense is a service of Google LLC (www.google.de). Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. As a result of this agreement between the US and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
For videos from Youtube, which are integrated on our site, the extended data protection setting is activated. This means that no information from website visitors is collected and stored on YouTube unless they play the video. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your relevant rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy can be found in the data protection information of Google http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/+1button.html.”.
Vimeo is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York 10011, USA (“Vimeo”). Pursuant to art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit f GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an optimal presentation of our offer that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests.
Our presences on social networks and platforms serve a better, active communication with our customers and interested parties. We inform there about our products and current special offers.
When you visit our websites in social media, your data may be automatically collected and stored for market research and advertising purposes. So-called usage profiles are created from these data using pseudonyms. These can be used, for example, to place advertisements inside and outside the platforms that presumably correspond to your interests. For this purpose, cookies are usually used on your terminal. The visitor behaviour and the interests of the users are stored in these cookies.
This serves in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR to protect our legitimate interests, which outweigh our interests, in an optimised presentation of our offer and effective communication with customers and interested parties. If you are asked by the respective Social-Media platform operators for a consent (agreement) into the data processing, e.g. with the help of a checkbox, is the legal basis of the data processing art. 6 exp. 1 lit. a GDPR.
On some of our websites the pixel of VG WORT is integrated, via which we record the page accesses in order to report them to the Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort (VG Wort). This serves the purpose of enabling our authors to participate in the distributions of VG WORT and is based on our legal obligation to ensure the legal remuneration for the use of copyrighted works pursuant to Section 53 UrhG in accordance with art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.
In other cases, requests for evaluation are sent as consideration for free membership and thus as an integral part of the membership contract. In these cases, data processing is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract and is therefore based on Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR.

References: art. 6
 art. 46
 art. 6
 art. 6
 art. 6
 art. 6
 art. 6
 art. 6
 art. 6
 Art. 6
 art. 6
 art. 6
 Art. 6