DATA PROTECTION

We understand data protection as a customer-oriented quality feature. Therefore, to the best of our knowledge and belief, we guarantee the greatest possible protection of your personal data. Matex wallpaper sales GmbH, Hanauer Str. 98-99, 63755 Alzenau collects and uses your personal data exclusively within the framework of the provisions of the data protection law of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following we inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data on our company homepage (hereinafter referred to as "homepage"). You can call up this information at any time on our homepage www.matex-tapeten.de under the menu item "Privacy Policy".

1. Access Data and Hosting

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time a website is called up, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, date and time of the call, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data) and documents the call. This access data is evaluated exclusively for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the site and improving our offer. In accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f GDPR, this serves to protect our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offer, which predominate within the framework of a weighing of interests. All access data will be deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the site.

2. Data Collection and Use

We collect personal data if you provide it to us when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or email). Mandatory fields are marked as such, since in these cases we need the data to process your contact and you cannot send the contact without providing them. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data you provide in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter b GDPR to process your inquiries. After the contract has been completed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after any retention periods under tax and commercial law have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement.

3. Email Newsletter

E-mail advertising with registration for the newsletterIf you register for our newsletter, we use the data required for this or separately provided by you in order to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit.

Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After you have unsubscribed, we will delete your e-mail address, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use data beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this declaration.

Cookies and web analysis

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, to display suitable products or for market research, we use so-called cookies on various pages. This serves to protect our overriding legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Cookies are small text files that are automatically saved on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after closing your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). You can see the duration of storage in the overview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. 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. These can be found for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer™:windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Safari™:https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Chrome™:support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py
Firefox™:https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-allow-and-reject
Opera™:help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html
If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

Use of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analysisFor website analysis, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (www.google.de). This serves to protect our overriding legitimate interests in an optimized presentation of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. 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 anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the 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 sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is generally not merged with other Google data. After the end of our use of Google Analytics, the data collected in this context will be deleted. Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate canherebe viewed. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield. You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link :tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptoutAs an alternative to the browser plugin, you can click this link to prevent future detection by Google Analytics on this website. An opt-out cookie is stored on your end device. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.

5. Social Media Plugins

Use of social plugins from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, PinterestSo-called social plugins (“plugins”) from social networks are used on our website. If you access a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook, Google, Twitter or Instagram servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider (possibly in the USA) and stored there. If you are logged in to one of the services, the providers can directly assign the visit to our website to your profile in the respective social network. If you interact with the plugins, for example by pressing the "Like" or "Share" button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts there. This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as a contact option and your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in the data protection information of the providers.www.facebook.com/policy.phphttps://twitter.com/privacywww.google.com/intl/de/ /policy/ 1button.htmlhttps://help.instagram.com/155833707900388https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policyIf you do not want the social networks to directly assign the data collected via our website to your profile in the relevant service, you must log out of the relevant service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. B. with the script blocker "NoScript" (http://noscript.net/).

Youtube Video PluginContent from third-party providers is included on this website. This content is provided by Google LLC ("Provider"). YouTube is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). The extended data protection setting is activated for videos from YouTube that are embedded on our site. This means that no information is collected and stored from website visitors on YouTube unless they play the video. The integration of the videos serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in optimal marketing of our offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in Google's data protection informationhttp://www.google.com/intl/de/ /policy/ 1button.html.

6. Contact options and your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified there;
pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing is required - to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information; - to fulfill a legal obligation; - is necessary for reasons of public interest or - to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to demand that the processing of your personal data be restricted, insofar as - the correctness of the data is disputed by you; - the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure; - we no longer need the data, but you need them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or - you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another person responsible;
according to Art. 77 DSGVO the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or our company headquarters.

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, if you require information, correction, blocking or deletion of data, or if you wish to revoke any consent you may have given or object to a specific use of data, please contact: Alexander Matthies, Managing Director of Matex Tapeten Vertriebs GmbH, Hanauer Str. 98-99 63755 Alzenaua.matthies@matex-tapeten.de

Right to objectInsofar as we process personal data as explained above in order to protect our legitimate interests, which prevail in the context of a balancing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is for direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is for other purposes, you only have the right to object if there are reasons that arise from your particular situation. After you have exercised your right to object, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of serves legal claims. This does not apply if the processing is for direct marketing purposes. Then we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose.

Alzenau, May 2018