Cookie Policy

Preamble

Deuter is happy that you have visited our website. Data protection and data safety while our website is being used are very important to us. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to inform you of which cookies and other similar technologies we use. Since changes in the law or our internal company processes may require us to amend this cookie policy, please consult it regularly. This cookie policy applies to Deuter’s website, located at https://www.deuter.com.

1. Scope of Application

This cookie policy applies to Deuter’s website, located at the domain https://www.deuter.com and the various subdomains (“Our Website”).

2. General Information on Cookies

Cookies are small files that contain certain pieces of information (such as language settings and login information) and which are stored on your end device. Cookies are used either by partners (“first-party cookies”) or certain third parties whose services are being used (“third-party cookies”). We also use other technologies, such as browser storage and plugins (HTML5, IndexedDB, and WebSQL, for example).

We use cookies to provide and optimize our website, to support advertising and marketing initiatives, to recognize returning visitors, and to obtain information about their user behavior and their potential interests.

We and our service providers use cookies and other technologies (such as web beacons) and resettable device identifiers for various reasons. Web beacons (also known as clear GIFs or tracking pixels) often work in conjunction with cookies. In many cases, rejecting cookies will limit the effectiveness of web beacons in connection with these cookies. We want to ensure that you are informed of our use of these technologies. This section explains the technologies we use, their function, and your choices regarding their use.

3. Categories of Cookies and Legal Bases

Various types of cookies are used on our website. We use the following categories of cookies on our website:

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for technical reasons so that you can visit our website and use the functions we offer. We need them in order to display our website. We also need them to make navigating our website user-friendly and to allow you to use its functions (such as setting your data protection preferences, contacting us, and filling out forms). This category of cookies does not require any consent under the applicable laws. The legal basis for using technically necessary cookies to store information on your end device and read it later is § 25(2)(2) of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). The ensuing processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If you block strictly necessary cookies, we may not be able to display our website in full. They also help us implement our terms of use, prevent fraud, and maintain the security of our service.

3.2 Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow us to analyze the use of website pages and improve our website’s performance and functionality. They collect information about how visitors use our website, which pages are accessed most frequently, or whether error messages are displayed on certain pages. Functionality cookies are also used to enable requested functions (such as playing videos).

We need your consent for technically unnecessary cookies, known as “third-party cookies.” If you have given us your consent to use a technically unnecessary cookie based on a notice ("cookie banner") we provide on the website, the legal basis for storing information on your end device and reading it later is § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG).You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager under COOKIE SETTINGS(note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in the browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).

You can find more information on browser settings and managing your consent in item 4 below.

3.3. Advertising Cookies, Statistics, and Resettable Device Identifiers:

These cookies and resettable device identifiers use information about your use of this and other websites and your reaction to advertisements and emails to deliver more relevant ads to you and for analytics and optimization purposes.

We also use cookies to display certain types of ads and products and services available from us and for certain ads that are relevant to your interests.

Authorized third-party services may also use cookies if you have activated this upon visiting our website. These third-party services include search engines, measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising firms. Third-party services use cookies to provide advertising content (specifically, ads that are relevant to you based on your interests) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements.

4. Configuration of Browser Settings

You may manage your cookie settings using the setting options listed below or by configuring your browser settings.

Most browsers are preset to accept cookies by default. Nevertheless, you may configure your browser so that it only accepts certain cookies, or no cookies at all. Please note that you may not be able to use all of our website’s functionalities if you deactivate cookies on our website in your browser settings. You may also use your browser settings to delete cookies that are already stored in your browser or to display their storage period. You may also configure your browser to inform you before cookies are placed. Since different browsers might have different functions, you should consult your browser’s help menu to find the configuration options.

If you want a comprehensive overview of all third-party access to your Internet browser, we recommend that you install plug-ins specially developed for that purpose.

You can find more information on the individually placed cookies in our Cookie Consent Manager. You can also manage your consent there (for example, you can revoke a consent that you had previously given).

Manage your Consent

5. Placed Cookies

5.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies – Cookie Information

We use cookies on this website to comply with legal obligations and to store and manage your consent. To do so, we use cookies from the Cookie Information consent software provided by Cookie Information A/S, Købmagergade 19, 1150 Copenhagen, Denmark. Without these cookies, the consent software won’t work.

The following data will be processed when you visit our website:

Consent(s) and revocation of consent(s),
Technical information about your browser and your end devices, such as language settings and screen resolution,
Anonymized IP address,
Date and time of your visit,
Request URL of the website,
Website page path, and
Current geographical location.

The legal basis for storing information on your end device and reading it later is Art. 25(2)(2) of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on our legal obligation to advertise a cookie banner under Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.

The term of storage is set at just a few days (no more than 400). The cookies placed have a maximum life of 400 days.

You may find out more about Cookie Information’s data protection policy at https://cookieinformation.com/cookie-and-privacy-policy/.

5.2 First-Party Cookies

We use our own strictly necessary technical cookies to ensure this website’s functionality. They collect data such as:

Host
User IP address
Date and time of access
Means of access (get/post)
Request
Protocol (such as https)
Status (such as error messages)
Amount of data retrieved
Referrer
User browser and operating system.

The legal basis for processing information on your end device and reading it later is Art. 25(2)(2) of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

The cookies have a maximum validity of one year. Data is deleted when it is no longer necessary. The collection of data to provide the website and its (temporary) storage is absolutely necessary for the website’s operation. Data may be stored for longer if this is legally required.

5.3 Performance Cookies – Cloudfare

To make it faster and more secure, this website uses the Cloudfare Content Delivery Network (CDN) provided by Cloudfare Inc. (101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 United States). A CDN is a network of of [globally] distributed servers able to deliver optimized content to the website user. The following personal data may be processed for this purpose by Cloudfare in server log files:

the accessed website,
the browser type used,
the operating system,
the referrer-URL,
the IP address, and
the requesting provider.

The legal basis for using this service to store information on your end device and read it later is based on your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our cookie consent manager(note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).

If the service is used, personal data may be transmitted to countries outside the EU/EEA, specifically the USA. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into what are known as EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses with this service provider. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. Whenever possible, we are also in contact with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

The placed cookies are valid for 30 days. The personal data collected via the cookies is erased when the storage period has expired unless other legal retention obligations apply.

You can find more information about Cloudfare’s data protection policy at the following link: https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/gdpr/introduction/.

5.4 Google Analytics

This website uses the web analytics service Google Analytics, provided by Google Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to analyze your use of the website.

If you authorize their use, the following data will be processed:

date and time of access,
the pages you visited and your click path,
achievement of website goals,
user behavior (such as clicks, dwell time, and bounce rates),
approximate geographical location (region),
anonymized IP address,
technical information about your browser and he end devices you use, such as language settings and screen resolution,
Internet provider, and
referrer URL.

As a rule, the information these cookies collect is transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. When Google Analytics is used, the cookies it places might also collect other personal data besides the IP address. Please note that Google may transfer this information to third parties if required to do so by law, or if such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

Google will use the information generated by cookies on behalf of this website’s operator to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services relating to website use and Internet use to the website operator. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser when using Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

The cookies used by Google Analytics might collect other personal data in addition to the IP address. To prevent Google Analytics from collecting information about your use of the website and transmitting it to Google Analytics, you can download and install a plugin for your browser at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. This plugin prevents information about your website visit from being transmitted to Google Analytics. This plugin does not prevent other analyses.

Please note that you cannot use this browser plugin when visiting our website on the browser of a mobile device (such as a smartphone or tablet). When you click on this link, an opt-out cookie is installed on your browser. This plugin prevents information about your website visit from being transmitted to Google Analytics. Please note that this opt-out cookie is only valid for this browser and this domain. If you delete the cookies for this browser, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted. To continue preventing Google Analytics from collecting data, you must click on the link again. Using the opt-out cookie serves as an alternative to the aforementioned plugin when using the browser on your computer.

To ensure that your personal data is optimally protected, Google Analytics has been extended on this website with the code “anonymizeIp." This code causes the last 8 figures of IP addresses to be deleted, which anonymizes your IP address (also known as “IP masking”). As a result, your IP address will be truncated by Google before it is transmitted within member states of the European Union or other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thereby anonymized. Only in exceptional cases will your full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

When Google Analytics is used, personal data may be transmitted outside the EU/EEA, specifically to the USA. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into what are known as EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses with Google. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. Whenever possible, we are in contact with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

The legal basis for this service, and for storing information on your end device and reading it later, is your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).Please refer to item 4 for more information.

Once placed, cookies are valid for a maximum of 14 months. Personal data collected via the cookies is deleted after 14 months unless another legal retention obligation exists.

You can find more information on this at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and https://policies.google.com/ (general information on Google Analytics and Data Protection).

5.5 HubSpot

We use a cookie on this website from the service “HubSpot" by HubSpot Inc., located at 25 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA, with a subsidiary in Ireland at 2nd Floor 30 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland. Hubspot is an integrated software and customer relationship management solution that we use to cover various aspects of our online marketing and to manage customers and contacts. The cookie collects information about you and your activity on the website. This information is used to track and analyze your user behavior and to display targeted advertising. This includes the following categories of personal data:

IP address
Device identification
Length of visit
Clickstream data
Communication history

Personal data may also be sent to countries outside the EU/EEA, specifically the USA. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into what are known as EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses with Hubspot. Whenever possible, we are in contact with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

The legal basis for this service, and for storing information on your end device and reading it later, is your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our cookie consent manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). Please see item 4 for more information.

Hubspot cookies are valid for a maximum of 24 months. Data collected by the cookies is stored for two years.

You can find more information on Hubspot’s data protection policy at: https://legal.hubspot.com/de/privacy-policy.

5.6 Embedding of YouTube Videos

We embed YouTube videos on our website (a process known as “framing”). Technically, this process uses cookies. We do this to illustrate the contents of individual subpages. As soon as you click on the video to play it, data is transmitted to YouTube’s operator, which is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Ireland Ltd. can track the following things, among others, whether or not you are logged into your YouTube account:

How long you stayed on a given website
Your IP address
What you clicked on
The website you came from
The next website you visited
Which websites and apps you have visited or used in the past

Please note that we do not have any precise information from the service provider on the scope of this data processing. When you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The legal basis for storing information on your end device and reading it later is your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).

In this context, personal data may be transmitted to countries outside the EU/EEA, specifically the USA. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into what are known as EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses with our service providers. Whenever possible, we are in contact with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

You can find more information in our Cookie Consent Manager.

YouTube cookies are valid for up to 13 months. Personal data collected via the cookies is stored for 13 months.

You can find more information on YouTube’s data protection policy at: https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_de/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/protecting-user-data/?yt_product=ytgen&yt_goal=eng&yt_campaign_id=hyw&yt_creative_id=#privacy-guidelines.

5.7 Google Tag Manager

This website uses Google Tag Manager, a website tag management service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The tool activates other tags that can collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access that data. If deactivation is effected at the domain or cookie level, that deactivation remains in effect for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

In this case, personal data may be transmitted to countries outside the EU/EEA, specifically the USA. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into a user agreement with this service provider. Whenever possible, we are in contact with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

The legal basis for using this service, and for storing information on your end device and reading it later, is your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). Please refer to item 4 for more information.

The cookies are valid for a maximum of 24 months. Personal data collected via these cookies is stored for 24 months.

You can find more information on Google Tag Manager’s user terms and conditions and data protection policy at: https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/9323295?hl=de or https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

5.8 Onsite Customization

This website uses technology provided by trbo GmbH, Leopoldstr. 41, 80802 Munich (“trbo”). We process data from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms to provide you with personalized customer benefits and to measure the use of our online offerings and the effectiveness of our online advertising.

In technical terms, trbo places cookies and web beacons to collect the following information: Which pages are visited, how often, and in what sequence, which products are searched for, which links and offers are clicked on, and which orders are placed.

The data collected and used in this setting is only stored under a pseudonym (such as a random identification number) and is not associated with your personal data (your name, address, etc.). Before being sent to trbo, the last eight digits of your IP address are removed to ensure it is anonymized before being collected.

The cookies installed by trbo are valid for 7 days. The data collected via the cookies is stored for 7 days.

You can find more information on trbo’s data protection policy at: https://www.trbo.com/datenschutz/.

5.9 Meta Pixel

Our website also uses the “Meta Pixel” from the social network Facebook, a service of Meta Platforms Inc., located at 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Meta”).

This allows our website users to be shown interest-based advertisements ("Facebook ads") when they visit the Facebook social network or other websites that also use this process. Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Meta server through the Meta pixel. We cannot influence the scope and further use of the data collected by Meta through this tool, so we are informing you based on our level of knowledge that: By integrating the meta pixel, Meta is informed that you have clicked on an ad from us or that you have accessed our corresponding website. If you are registered with a Meta service, Meta can assign the visit to your account. You may view and change the privacy settings of your Facebook profile at any time. Even if you do not have a Facebook profile and are thus not logged in, the service might learn and store your IP address and other identifiers.

By using the Meta Pixel, we aim to display our Facebook ads only to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our website. The Meta Pixel helps us ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interest of users and are not bothersome. We can also use the Meta Pixel to track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical purposes, since it allows us to see whether users have been redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad.

The legal basis for using the Meta Pixel to store information on your end device and read it later is your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).

The installed cookies are valid for 30 days. The personal information collected via the cookies is stored for a minimum of 90 days unless other legal retention obligations apply.

If this service is used, personal data might be transmitted to countries outside the EU/EEA, specifically the USA. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into what are known as EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses with this service provider. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. Whenever possible, we are in contact with the service providers to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

Information from the third-party service provider: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php; for more information on data collection: http://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084.

5.10 Microsoft Advertising

We use the conversion tracking tool Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) for our online marketing initiatives, which is provided by Microsoft Corporation, located at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. Microsoft Advertising is an online marketing service whose Universal Event Tracking (UET) tool helps us display targeted advertisements via the Microsoft Bing search engine.

To do this, Microsoft Advertising stores a cookie on your computer if you visit our website via a Microsoft advertisement. We and Microsoft Advertising can see that someone has clicked on an ad, been redirected to our website, and visited a predetermined target page (the conversion page).

This tells us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and were redirected to our website. However, we do not receive any information that personally identifies users.

If this service is used, personal data might be transmitted outside the EU/EEA, specifically to the USA. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into what are known as EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses with this service provider. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. Whenever possible, we are in contact with the service providers to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

The legal basis for installing cookies to store information on your end device and read it later is your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). You may also deactivate personalized advertising with Microsoft: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/de-de/ressourcen/richtlinien/personalisierte-anzeigen.

The cookies placed are valid for 13 months. The data collected via the cookies is stored for 13 months unless other legal retention obligations apply.

You can find more information on Microsoft’s data protection policy and the cookies it uses at https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.

5.11 Pinterest

Our website uses the conversion tracking technology “Pinterest tag” for marketing purposes, which is provided by Pinterest Inc., located at 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Pinterest”).

If you have been redirected to our website from a pin on Pinterest, we will place a cookie on your computer that interacts with a tag that is also implemented in the form of a Java Script code from Pinterest. If the user is redirected to pages of this website from a pin on Pinterest and the cookie has not yet expired, the tag records certain user actions predefined by us which it can track (such as completed transactions, leads, search queries on the website, and views of product pages). When such an action is performed, your browser sends an HTTP request from the cookie to Pinterest’s server via the Pinterest tag that transmits specific information about the action (including the type of action, time, and browser type of the end device). This transmission allows Pinterest to create statistics about the usage behavior on our website following a redirect from a Pinterest pin, which we use to optimize our service. However, we do not receive any information that personally identifies users.

If you have a Pinterest account, Pinterest can also link the information collected about your visit to our website to your account. The information collected via the pixel can be used to display interest-based advertisements in your Pinterest account (also known as “retargeting”). You may view and change the privacy settings of your Pinterest profile at any time.

If this service is used, personal data might be transmitted outside the EU/EEA, specifically to the USA. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into a user agreement with Pinterest. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. Whenever possible, we are in contact with Pinterest to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

The legal basis for using the Pinterest tag, and for storing information on your end device and reading it later, is your express consent provided in accordance with § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).

The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).

The cookies placed are valid for 180 days. The data collected via the cookies is stored for a minimum of 180 days unless other legal retention obligations apply.

You can find more information on Pinterest’s data protection policy at: https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

5.12 Google Recaptcha

Our website uses “Google reCAPTCHA” (“reCAPTCHA”). This service is provided by Google Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether data is entered on our websites (in a contact form, for example) by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the website visitor’s behavior based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the visitor accesses the website. For its analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various pieces of information (such as the IP address, time spent on the website by the website visitor, and mouse movements made by the user). The data collected through the analysis is transmitted to Google.

reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

If the service is used, personal data might be transmitted to countries outside the EU/EEA, specifically the USA. To ensure that your personal data is adequately protected if transmitted to such non-EU countries, we have entered into what are known as EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses with this service provider. The European Court of Justice has decided that the USA does not have a sufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. Therefore, since there is no adequacy decision or suitable guarantees, your data might be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes—possibly with no option for legal recourse. Whenever possible, we are also in contact with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data with any additional measures that may be necessary.

The cookies placed are valid for 30 days. The data collected via the cookies is stored for 24 months unless other legal retention obligations apply.

You can learn more about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s data protection policy at the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

5.15 OUTTRA

We use the OUTTRA Dealer Locator function, which is provided by 81 MEDIA GmbH, Ziegelbrennerstr. 5, 73074 Stuttgart ein.

For this function to be displayed, the tool must request the visitor’s IP address through cookies. The IP address is used only to send relevant information to the browser (meaning, the user). Therefore, the IP address is required to display this function. For the Dealer Locator function, the visitor's IP address is anonymized on the OUTTRA server. The anonymized IP address is used to query a database, which allows for the visitor’s approximate localization based on the non-anonymized part of the IP address. Visitors are then shown nearby dealers on the website.

The legal basis for storing information on your end device and reading it later is § 25(1) sentence 1 of the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TTDSG). You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively). The subsequent processing of your personal data is based on your express consent provided in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may revoke this consent at any time by deactivating the cookies in your browser settings or in our Cookie Consent Manager (note that consent cannot be revoked retroactively).

You can learn more about OUTTRA’s data protection policy at: https://www.outtra.com/de-de/datenschutzerkl%C3%A4rung

When the visitor ends his/her browser session, neither 81 MEDIA GmbH nor Maier Sports stores any personal data.

Effective: October 2023.