Privacy Policy
1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data refers to all data with which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The controller for data processing on this website, in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is Ali Aydin, Lions Collection, Gervinusstr. 5-7, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Tel.: 069870019120, Fax: 069870019121, E-Mail: info@lionscollection.de. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website
2.1 When using our website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:
- Our visited website
- Date and time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/reference from which you reached the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. No disclosure or other use of the data takes place. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.
3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
GoDaddy
We use the system of the following provider for hosting our website and displaying the page content: Go Daddy Operating Co LLC, 14455 North Hayden Road, Suite 226, Scottsdale, AZ 85260, USA
All data collected on our website is processed on the provider's servers.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European data protection level based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
4) Cookies
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing the browser (so-called "session cookies"), while others remain on your device for a longer period and allow the storage of page settings (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of your web browser's cookie settings.
If personal data is processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing takes place either in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR for the execution of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of a granted consent, or in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally.
Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contacting Us
When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or e-mail), personal data is processed – exclusively for the purpose of processing and responding to your request and only to the extent necessary for this.
The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.
6) Use of Customer Data for Direct Marketing
GoDaddy
Our email newsletters are sent via this provider: Go Daddy Operating Co LLC, 14455 North Hayden Road, Suite 226, Scottsdale, AZ 85260, USA
Based on our legitimate interest in effective and user-friendly newsletter marketing, we transfer your data provided during newsletter registration to this provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, so that they can handle the newsletter dispatch on our behalf.
Subject to your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the provider also conducts a statistical success evaluation of newsletter campaigns using web beacons or tracking pixels in the sent emails, which can measure open rates and specific interactions with the newsletter content. This also involves collecting and evaluating device information (e.g., time of access, IP address, browser type, and operating system), but it is not merged with other data records.
You can revoke your consent to newsletter tracking at any time with effect for the future.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that protects our website visitors' data and prohibits disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European data protection level based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
7) Data Processing for Order Fulfillment
7.1 If required for contract fulfillment for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data collected by us will be passed on to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned credit institution in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
If, based on a corresponding contract, we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products, we will process the contact data you provided during the order (name, address, email address) to personally inform you about upcoming updates within the legally prescribed period, via a suitable communication channel (e.g., by post or email), in accordance with our statutory information obligations pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Your contact data will be used strictly for the purpose of communicating updates owed by us and will only be processed by us to the extent necessary for the respective information.
To process your order, we also work with the following service provider(s) who assist us partially or fully in carrying out concluded contracts. Certain personal data is transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.
7.2 Use of Payment Service Providers
- Apple Pay
If you choose the "Apple Pay" payment method from Apple Distribution International (Apple), Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland, payment processing takes place via the "Apple Pay" function of your iOS, watchOS or macOS device by debiting a payment card stored in "Apple Pay". Apple Pay uses security features integrated into your device's hardware and software to protect your transactions. To authorize a payment, you must enter a code previously set by you and verify it using the "Face ID" or "Touch ID" function of your device.
For the purpose of payment processing, your information provided during the ordering process, along with information about your order, is forwarded to Apple in encrypted form. Apple then re-encrypts this data with a developer-specific key before the data is transmitted to the payment service provider of the payment card stored in Apple Pay for the execution of the payment. The encryption ensures that only the website through which the purchase was made can access the payment data. After the payment has been made, Apple sends your device account number and a transaction-specific, dynamic security code to the originating website to confirm the success of the payment.
If personal data is processed during the described transmissions, the processing takes place exclusively for the purpose of payment processing in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
Apple stores anonymized transaction data, including the approximate purchase amount, the approximate date and time, and whether the transaction was successfully completed. Anonymization completely excludes any personal reference. Apple uses the anonymized data to improve "Apple Pay" and other Apple products and services.
If you use Apple Pay on your iPhone or Apple Watch to complete a purchase you made via Safari on your Mac, the Mac and the authorization device communicate over an encrypted channel on Apple's servers. Apple does not process or store any of this information in a format that can identify you personally. You can disable the ability to use Apple Pay on your Mac in your iPhone settings. Go to "Wallet & Apple Pay" and disable "Allow Payments on Mac".
Further information on data protection at Apple Pay can be found at the following internet address: https://support.apple.com
- Google Pay
If you choose the "Google Pay" payment method from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"), payment processing takes place via the "Google Pay" application of your mobile device, running on at least Android 4.4 ("KitKat") and equipped with NFC functionality, by debiting a payment card stored with Google Pay or a verified payment system there (e.g., PayPal). To authorize a payment via Google Pay exceeding €25, prior unlocking of your mobile device using the respective verification measure (e.g., facial recognition, password, fingerprint, or pattern) is required.
For the purpose of payment processing, your information provided during the order process, along with information about your order, is forwarded to Google. Google then transmits your payment information stored in Google Pay in the form of a uniquely assigned transaction number to the originating website, which verifies a completed payment. This transaction number contains no information about the real payment data of your payment methods stored in Google Pay, but is created and transmitted as a uniquely valid numerical token. In all transactions via Google Pay, Google acts only as an intermediary for processing the payment. The transaction is carried out exclusively between the user and the originating website by debiting the payment method stored in Google Pay.
If personal data is processed during the described transmissions, the processing takes place exclusively for the purpose of payment processing in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR.
Google reserves the right to collect, store, and evaluate certain transaction-specific information for every transaction made via Google Pay. This includes the date, time, and amount of the transaction, merchant location and description, a description of the purchased goods or services provided by the merchant, photos you have attached to the transaction, the name and email address of the seller and buyer or sender and recipient, the payment method used, your description of the reason for the transaction, and, if applicable, the offer associated with the transaction.
According to Google, this processing takes place exclusively in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of the legitimate interest in proper accounting, verification of transaction data, and the optimization and functional maintenance of the Google Pay service.
Google also reserves the right to merge the processed transaction data with other information collected and stored by Google when using other Google services.
The terms of use for Google Pay can be found here:
https://payments.google.com
Further information on data protection at Google Pay can be found at the following internet address:
https://payments.google.com
- Stripe
One or more online payment methods from the following provider are available on this website: Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland
If you select a payment method from the provider where you make an advance payment (e.g., credit card payment), your payment data provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card information, currency, and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be forwarded to this provider in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR. The transfer of your data in this case is exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only to the extent necessary for this.
If you choose a payment method where the provider makes an advance payment (e.g., invoice or installment purchase, or direct debit), you will also be asked to provide certain personal data during the order process (first name and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, phone number, and possibly data about an alternative payment method).
To protect our legitimate interest in determining the creditworthiness of our customers, this data will be forwarded by us to the provider for a credit check in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Based on the personal data you provide and other data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experiences), the provider checks whether the payment option you selected can be granted in view of payment and/or default risks.
The creditworthiness information may contain probability values (so-called score values). If score values are included in the result of the creditworthiness information, they are based on a scientifically recognised mathematical-statistical procedure. The calculation of the score values includes, but is not limited to, address data.
You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to us or to the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data if this is necessary for contractual payment processing.
8) Web analysis services
Google Analytics 4
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google"), which enables an analysis of your use of our website.
By default, when you visit the website, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies, which are stored as small text modules on your device and collect certain information. The scope of this information also includes your IP address, which, however, is truncated by Google by the last digits to exclude direct personal reference.
The information is transmitted to Google servers and processed there. This may also include transfers to Google LLC, based in the USA.
Google uses the collected information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities for us and to provide other services associated with website and internet use. The truncated IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. The data collected within the scope of Google Analytics 4 is stored for a period of two months and then deleted.
All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies on the device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR.
Without your consent, Google Analytics 4 will not be used during your visit to the site. You can revoke your given consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please deactivate this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
Further legal information on Google Analytics 4 can be found at https://business.safety.google
Demographic features
Google Analytics 4 uses the special function "demographic features" and can use it to create statistics that provide information about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This is done by analysing advertising and information from third-party providers. This allows target groups for marketing activities to be identified. However, the collected data cannot be assigned to a specific person and is deleted after storage for a period of two months.
Google Signals
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, Google Signals can be used on this website to generate cross-device reports. If you have activated personalised ads and have linked your devices to your Google account, Google may, subject to your consent to the use of Google Analytics in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR, analyse your usage behaviour across devices and create database models, including cross-device conversions. We do not receive personal data from Google, but only statistics. If you want to stop cross-device analysis, you can deactivate the "Personalised advertising" function in your Google account settings. Follow the instructions on this page: https://support.google.com
User IDs
As an extension to Google Analytics 4, the "User IDs" function can be used on this website. If you have consented to the use of Google Analytics 4 in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR, have set up an account on this website and log in to this account on different devices, your activities, including conversions, can be analysed across devices.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
9) Site functionalities
9.1 Instagram plugins
Plugins of the social network of the following provider are used on our website: Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland
These plugins enable direct interactions with content on the social network.
To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are initially deactivated by means of a so-called "2-click" or "Shariff" solution.
This integration ensures that when a page of our website containing such plugins is accessed, no connection is yet established with the provider's servers.
Only when you activate the plugins and thus give your consent to the data transfer in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR, does your browser establish a direct connection to the provider's servers. In this process, regardless of a login to an existing user profile, information about your device used (including your IP address), your browser and your page history is transmitted to the provider to a certain extent and, if applicable, further processed there.
If you are logged into an existing user profile on the provider's social network, information about interactions carried out via the plugins is also published there and displayed to your contacts.
You can revoke your consent at any time by deactivating the activated plugin by clicking on it again. However, the revocation has no influence on the data that has already been transferred to the provider.
Data may also be transferred to: Meta Platforms Inc., USA
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
9.2 Vimeo
This website uses plugins for the display and playback of videos from the following provider: Vimeo.com, Inc., 330 West 34th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA
If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the provider's servers to load the plugin. In this process, certain information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.
If the playback of embedded videos is started via the plugin, the provider also uses cookies to collect information about user behaviour, to create playback statistics and to prevent abusive behaviour.
If you are logged into a user account with the provider during your visit to the site, your data will be directly assigned to your account when you click on a video. If you do not wish the assignment to your account, you must log out before activating the playback button.
All the aforementioned processing, in particular the setting of cookies for reading out information on the device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your given consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
9.3 Youtube
This website uses plugins for the display and playback of videos from the following provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
Data may also be transmitted to: Google LLC., USA
If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the provider's servers to load the plugin. In this process, certain information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.
If the playback of embedded videos is started via the plugin, the provider also uses cookies to collect information about user behaviour, to create playback statistics and to prevent abusive behaviour.
If you are logged into a user account with the provider during your visit to the site, your data will be directly assigned to your account when you click on a video. If you do not wish the assignment to your account, you must log out before activating the playback button.
All the aforementioned processing, in particular the setting of cookies for reading out information on the device used, only takes place if you have given us your express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your given consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service via the "Cookie Consent Tool" provided on the website.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
10) Tools and Other
Cookie Consent Tool
This website uses a "Cookie Consent Tool" to obtain effective user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The "Cookie Consent Tool" is displayed to users in the form of an interactive interface when they access a page, on which consent for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be given by ticking a box. In this process, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded through the use of the tool if the respective user gives the corresponding consent by ticking a box. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the respective user's device if consent has been given.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. Personal user data is generally not 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 (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 the processing is also Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR. As controllers, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user's consent.
If necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors' data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.
Further information on the operator and the setting options of the Cookie Consent Tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.
11) Rights of the data subject
11.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller regarding the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the stated legal basis for the respective exercise conditions:
- Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;
- Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
- Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;
- Right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;
- Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;
- Right to withdraw given consents pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR;
- Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.
11.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST IN THE CONTEXT OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE AFFECTED DATA. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU CAN EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE AFFECTED DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
12) Duration of storage of personal data
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if applicable – additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. commercial and tax law retention periods).
When processing personal data on the basis of express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR, the affected data will be stored until you revoke your consent.
If there are statutory retention periods for data processed in the context of legal or quasi-legal obligations based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or initiation and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in further storage.
When processing personal data based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 Para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object according to Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.
