Security & Privacy

We are pleased that you are visiting our shop and thank you for your interest in our company, our products and our websites. The protection of your privacy when using our websites is important to us. With 256-bit encryption, credit card clearing via iPayment, recurring security audits and much more, LIGHTEU ensures the greatest possible security when surfing through our pages.

Please take note of the following information:

§ 1 Collection, processing and use of personal data

In principle, you can visit our websites without us collecting any personal data from you. Personal data is only collected if you provide it to us of your own accord for the execution of a contract, when opening a customer account or when contacting us. Without your express consent, this data will be used solely for the execution of the contract and the processing of your enquiries. After complete processing of the contract, your data will be blocked with regard to tax and commercial retention periods and deleted after expiry of these periods.

In addition, personal data is collected when you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter. This data will be used by us for our own advertising purposes in the form of our e-mail newsletter, provided that you have expressly consented to this as follows:

"Please send me regular information about your product range by e-mail. I can unsubscribe from your newsletter at any time."

Data collection and use for contract processing and when opening a customer account

We collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order, when contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail) or when opening a customer account. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective input forms. We use the data provided by you to process the contract and your enquiries. After complete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after expiry of the tax and commercial retention periods, 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 inform you below. The deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described below or using a function provided for this purpose in the customer account.

Use of data when registering for the e-mail newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you to send you our e-mail newsletter on a regular basis (info@lighteu.de). 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.

§ 2 Disclosure of personal data: Order processing

The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with the delivery as part of the contract, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We pass on your payment data to the commissioned credit institution as part of the processing of payments.

If you pay by credit card via PayPal or by direct debit via PayPal, we will pass on your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg, as part of the payment processing. Further information on data protection at PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. can be found here: https://cms.paypal.com/de/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/Privacy_full&locale.x=de_DE

§ 3 Customer review request by Trusted Shop

If applicable, you have given the following consent after placing your order:

"Yes, I would like to "rate my purchase later" and be reminded by Trusted Shops once by e-mail to submit a review. I can revoke my consent at any time."

If you have given us your express consent to do so, we will transmit your e-mail address to Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15c, 50823 Cologne, so that they can send you an e-mail reminding you to submit a review. This consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future (e.g. by e-mail to our e-mail address given in the imprint).

§ 4 Cookies

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored 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 or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). 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. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

§ 5 Web analysis service

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "Cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within 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. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website in full. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

It should be noted that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()" and therefore IP addresses are only processed in abbreviated form in order to exclude direct personal references.

This website uses technologies from etracker GmbH (www.etracker.com) to collect and store data for marketing and optimisation purposes. User profiles can be created from this data under a pseudonym. Cookies may be used. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser. Cookies enable recognition of the Internet browser. The data collected with the etracker technologies will not be used to personally identify the visitor to this website and will not be merged with personal data about the bearer of the pseudonym without the separately granted consent of the person concerned. The collection and storage of data can be revoked at any time with effect for the future. In order to object to the collection and storage of your visitor data for the future, you can obtain an opt-out cookie from etracker under the following link, which means that no visitor data from your browser will be collected and stored by etracker in the future: http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb

The opt-out cookie bears the name "cntcookie" and is set by "etracker". Please do not delete this opt-out cookie as long as you wish to maintain your objection. You can find more information about etracker's privacy policy at the following Internet address: http://www.etracker.com/de/datenschutz.html

§ 6 Use of Facebook plugins

Our website uses so-called social plugins ("plugins") of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). The plugins are marked with a Facebook logo or the addition "Social plugin from Facebook" or Marked as “Facebook Social Plugin”. An overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

If you access a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook profile or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can immediately assign your visit to our website to your Facebook profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "Like" button or making a comment, this information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information will also be published on your Facebook profile and shown to your Facebook friends.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, can be found in Facebook's privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

If you do not want Facebook to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Facebook profile, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Facebook plugins with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the "Facebook Blocker" (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/).

§ 7 Retargeting/Remarketing

– This website uses retargeting technology from Google Inc. ("Google"). This makes it possible to target visitors to our website with personalized, interest-based advertising who have already shown an interest in our shop and our products. The advertising material is displayed on the basis of a cookie-based analysis of previous usage behavior, but no personal data is stored. In the cases of retargeting technology, a cookie is stored on your computer or mobile device in order to collect anonymized data about your interests and thus adapt the advertising individually to the stored information. These cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. As a result, you will be shown advertising that is highly likely to correspond to your product and information interests. You can permanently object to the setting of cookies for advertising preferences by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link:

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

Further information and the data protection regulations regarding advertising and Google can be found here:

http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

§ 8 Your rights and how to contact us

"As a data subject, you have the following rights:
• in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to
the scope specified therein information about
to request your personal data processed by us;
• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to request the immediate correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us;
• in accordance with 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;
– for reasons of public interest or
– to assert, exercise or defend legal claims
is required;
• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
– the accuracy of the data is contested by you;
– the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure;
– we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or
– In accordance with Art. 21 GDPR have lodged an objection to the processing;
• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another person responsible;
• in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR the right to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our company headquarters."

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