We appreciate your interest in our company and our products and services, and would like you to feel secure when contacting us regarding the protection of your personal information.
1. General
We process your personal information in accordance with the applicable statutory data protection requirements for the following purposes. Personal data is all information that relates to your person. This includes personal data (eg name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address), billing data (bank details, order information), information about your financial situation (eg creditworthiness data), advertising and sales data (ie findings from customer data analyzes) ,
2. Responsible body and contact
The Schotten & Hansen GmbH, August-Moralt-Strasse 1-3, D-86971 Peiting is responsible for the processing of your personal data in the sense of the DSGVO. If you have any questions or comments about the privacy of Schotten & Hansen GmbH, you can also contact our data protection officer. This is
Michael Pruss
Im Tal 12
86179 Augsburg
Telephone no.: +49 (0)821 / 43 39 38-0
E-Mail:
3. Legal basis
We process your data only if an applicable law allows this. Among other things, we will base the processing of your data on the following legal bases. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of legal bases, but is an example that should make the legal basis more transparent.
Consent (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a), Art. 7 DSGVO, or Art. 9 (2) lit. a), Art. 7 GDPR):
We will process certain data only on the basis of your previously given explicit and voluntary consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Fulfillment of a contract / pre-contractual measures (Article 6 (1) sentence 1 (b) DSGVO):
In order to initiate or execute your contract with Schotten & Hansen GmbH, we need access to certain data.
Fulfillment of a legal obligation (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (c) DSGVO):
Schotten & Hansen GmbH is subject to a number of statutory requirements. To meet these requirements, we must process certain data.
Preservation of legitimate interests (Article 6 (1) (1) (f) GDPR):
Schotten & Hansen GmbH will process certain data in order to safeguard its interests or those of third parties. However, this only applies if your interests do not predominate in individual cases.
4. Purposes to which we collect data
4.1 Contracting and contract execution
Schotten & Hansen GmbH processes your personal data in order to initiate and fulfill the contract with you. It covers all contractual services, shipping and billing information and communication with you. The legal basis is the processing for contract fulfillment and contract execution. For the purpose of fulfilling the contract, we also transmit your data to third parties and processors (for example, transport service providers and publishers).
4.2 Advertising and Homepage
We use your name, address and e-mail address to send you information about goods, services and events of Schotten & Hansen GmbH. There is no transfer of your personal data to third parties for advertising purposes. Our homepage uses cookies exclusively for storing the preferred display language of the visitor. The data you give us when using the contact form on our website will be transmitted to our server, where it will be converted into an e-mail and sent to us. These data are collected and used exclusively for processing your request. If you use external links offered within the framework of our Internet pages, this Privacy Policy does not extend to these links. Insofar as we offer links, we affirm that at the time of the link setting no violations of the applicable law on the linked websites were identified. However, we have no influence on the compliance of other providers with privacy and security regulations. Therefore, please inform yourself on the websites of the other providers also about the privacy statements provided there.
4.3 Market research and data analysis
There is no transfer of your personal data to market and polling institutes. Data analyzes take place anonymously and serve exclusively to optimize your own sales activities.
4.4 Credit Check
The Schotten & Hansen GmbH transmits your data in the event of a credit risk (name, address, mailing address, information on the company and, if necessary, contract and claims data) for the purpose of creditworthiness and to check deliverability of the specified address and for the purpose of collection processing to the IHD Gesellschaft für Kredit und Forderungsmanagement mbH, Augustinusstr. 11 B, 50226 Frechen, and possibly to other cooperating credit reporting agencies. The legal basis of this transfer is Article 6 (1) of the DSGVO and Article 6 (1) of the DSGVO. Transfers on the basis of Art. 6 I f DSGVO may only be made to the extent necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of our company and do not outweigh the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject requiring the protection of personal data. For the purpose of deciding on the establishment, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship, we also collect or use automated probability values, which may include, among other things, address data. Detailed information about our contractual partner, the IHD, within the meaning of Art 14 DSGVO, i.e. the business purpose, the purpose of the local data storage, the legal basis, the data recipients of the IHD, the right of self-information and the right to deletion, correction and profiling can be found at www.ihd.de/datenschutz/Artikel14.html You can find information about their contract partners in the field of credit inquiry agencies at: www.ihd.de/datenschutz#vertragspartner
5. Recipients of your personal data, also outside the EU
Your personal data are also used by other companies that are working on behalf of Schotten & Hansen GmbH (processor) or in the context of business partnerships of Schotten & Hansen GmbH (third parties). Possible recipients of your data are e.g. Local publishers and service partners, IT service providers, transport service providers and consulting companies. For details we refer to the numbers 4.1 to 4.4.
6. Data storage and data deletion
Due to the longevity and the individual production character of our products, we would like to be able to provide information on follow-up requests (for example service requests, stain removal, supplementary orders) as long as possible. For this reason, we only delete or pseudonymise customer and order data after expiration of the legal retention periods, if you so desire. The basis for this is therefore a balance of interests for your and our benefit. Please send your deletion or pseudonymization request to
7. Your rights
We are happy to provide you with information about which personal data you have stored with us and to whom we may have given them. You can have this data corrected, pseudonymized after expiry of the legal retention periods, or blocked for certain purposes and only processed to a limited extent. You have the right to object to the processing of your data for advertising purposes. You have the right to contact the competent supervisory authority, the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, if you have any questions or complaints. You have the right to receive the personal data relating to you in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to have it transmitted by us to another person in charge. To exercise your rights, please contact
As of May 2018 (translation by google translator)