This is Maren Jewelery's privacy policy, available at https://marenjewellery.com, (hereafter website). Maren Jewelery takes the protection of your privacy and your personal data very seriously. Accordingly, Maren Jewelery follows all relevant data protection regulations and constantly strives to optimize data protection.t.

In this data protection declaration, you will be informed about what Maren Jewelery needs your personal data for and whether and, if so, for how long Maren Jewelery stores this data. In this way, you can decide for yourself for which purposes Maren Jewelery may use your data. We will also explain to you how the protection of your personal data is ensured.

Table of contents

1. Responsible
2. Personal Data
3. operation of the website
4. Processed Data
1. Data Collected Automatically
2. customer account
3. Orders in the online shop
4. Sharing of Data
5. Email Newsletter
6. Contact via contact form and/or email
5. Use of cookies
1. General What are cookiess?
2. Revocation of consent to the use of cookies
3. Deletion of all cookies
4. Types of cookies in detail
6. Third Party Content
7. Use of external service providers
8. storage duration
9. contradiction
10. your rights
11. Questions

1. Controller

Responsible for the processing of your personal data is:

Maren Jewellery
Owner: Helge Hauptmann
Soeflinger Str. 250
89077 Ulm.

You can find more information in the imprint.

2. Personal Data

Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as your name, email address, telephone number, postal address or the IP address of your computer (hereinafter data or personal data).n“).

3. Operation of the Website

Maren Jewelery processes your personal data in order to provide you with the information available on this website. If you use the services offered on the website (e.g. contacting us to request information via email), Maren Jewelery only processes the data entered in order to provide the desired service.

Unless otherwise stated in the following regulations, the legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e. a weighing of interests based on the legitimate and overriding interest of Maren Jewelery in you To provide the website and the products and services offered on it, whereby Maren Jewelery always ensures that the processing of your data is limited to what is necessary.

If you would like to receive more detailed information regarding the justification of the legitimate interests according to Art. 6 Para. 1 f) DSGVO or the weighing of interests carried out by Maren Jewellery, please send an e-mail to info@marenjewellery.com.

4. Data Processed

4.1 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit this website, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of this website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is recorded without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• the address of the page you accessed on this website,
• the address of the website you visited immediately before (the so-called referrer),),
• IP address of your end device,
• date and time of your call,
• transfer status (file transferred, file not found, etc.),
• Properties of your end device, in particular the operating system, the browser used and the window size of your browser;

The data mentioned are processed by Maren Jewelery for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a smooth connection establishment of the website,
• Ensuring comfortable use of this website,
• Evaluation of system security and stability as well
• for other administrative purposes.

After 7 days at the latest, the data stored in the log files will be deleted or made anonymous. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on Maren Jewelery’s legitimate interest in ensuring the technical functionality of this website).

Under no circumstances does Maren Jewelery use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

4.2 Customer Account

Maren Jewelery offers you to set up a personal customer account (hereinafter customer account). You can store your personal information in the customer account. The customer account facilitates convenient shopping in the online shop and its processing because you do not have to enter your personal data again with every purchase.t.

The contractual content of the agreement on the provision of the customer account is also that you will receive an email with an invitation to submit a product rating and an invitation to submit a service rating at most twice a year.

To set up your personal customer account, Maren Jewelery needs your first and last name. In addition, customers must provide their e-mail address and a freely selectable password. The e-mail address provided by the customer also serves as the access code for the customer account. After successful registration, the customer automatically receives a confirmation by e-mail. In this way, the customer concludes the contract for the provision of the customer account at Maren Jewellery.

In addition, customers can store their personal information in their customer account and thus conveniently shop in the online store. The information can be updated at any time in the personal area of the customer account ("account").

Of course, the customer can terminate his contract for the provision of the customer account at any time and without giving reasons. The easiest way to do this is by sending an informal email to info@marenjewellery.com.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR (performance of contract).

4.3 Orders in the online shop

As a guest or registered customer, you can order Maren Jewelery products in the online shop. If you make a purchase as a guest, Maren Jewelery requires a title, first and last name, address and telephone number. When a registered customer makes a purchase, Maren Jewelery processes the data stored in the customer account. The processing of your personal data serves to conclude and implement the contract and to process your order, including payment and delivery.

The legal basis for the above data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR (contract fulfillment for the implementation and processing of contracts).

Maren Jewelery will delete your personal data processed in the context of orders at the latest after the statutory warranty periods have expired, insofar as this does not conflict with statutory storage obligations.

4.3.1 Shopify

To operate our online shop, Maren Jewelery uses the Shopify platform, a service provided by Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland. The parent company, Shopify Inc., on the other hand, has its registered office at 126 York Street, Suite 200, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 5T5.

Shopify provides an e-commerce platform through which Maren Jewelery offers its goods for sale. The data provided during the ordering process, as well as your IP address, the end device used, your browser and information about the orders you have placed are stored on a Shopify server in Ireland. However, personal data may also be processed on behalf of Shopify Inc. in Canada. In the case of a data transfer to Canada, the appropriate level of data protection in Canada is considered to be guaranteed by the so-called adequacy decision of the European Commission.

About Shopify: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd Floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland, email: hilfe@shopify.de. Further information on Shopify can also be found in the data protection information athttp://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR (contract fulfillment for the implementation and processing of contracts) or Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on the legitimate interest of Maren Jewelery, our to be able to sell the products offered quickly, easily and safely).

4.3.2 Credit Card Payment

If you want to pay for your order with your credit card as far as possible, Maren Jewelery needs the data marked with an (*) as required on the payment page of the website, in particular name, address, e-mail address, credit card number, name of the credit card owner and the validity period of the credit card. Maren Jewelery checks the data entered together with the data of your order in order to be able to detect fraudulent use of the credit card at an early stage and uses the data after a successful check to process the agreed payment by credit card.e.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is on the one hand Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR, ie the processing of your data is necessary for the fulfillment of the agreement on paying for your purchase by credit card. On the other hand, the legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on our interest in offering you effective and secure payment options and, in this context, preventing credit card misuse and fraud.

4.3.3 Payment with PayPal

If you would like to pay for your order with PayPal as far as possible, the amount to be paid by you together with your first and last name, delivery address, e-mail address, telephone number and IP address will be sent to PayPal (ie to PayPal (Europe) S.à rl et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg) so that you can authorize the payment to Maren Jewelery via PayPal. A PayPal account is required for this. PayPal also offers the option of processing virtual payments via credit cards if a user does not have a PayPal account. The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR, ie the processing of your data is necessary to fulfill the agreement on paying for your purchase via PayPal.h.

The data transmitted to PayPal may be transmitted by PayPal to credit agencies. This transmission serves to check identity and creditworthiness. You can find more information on data protection at PayPal on the PayPal website athttps://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. Payment with PayPal is voluntary, Maren Jewelery offers you a number of other payment options.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on the legitimate and overriding interest of Maren Jewelery to offer you effective and secure payment options and to prevent fraud in this context).

4.3.4 Purchase on account (Klarna)

Maren Jewelery may also offer you the option of paying by purchase on account via the service provider Klarna ((Klarna AB, Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden). If you decide to purchase on account, you transmit as part of your agreement with Klarna the personal data necessary for the processing of the purchase on account and an identity and credit check as well as fraud prevention (first and last name, address, e-mail address, IP address, telephone number) as well as the data necessary for the processing of the purchase on account ( Number of items, item number, invoice amount and taxes in percent) to Klarna. This data is collected so that Klarna can carry out an identity and credit check and create an invoice to process your purchase with the invoice processing you require.n.

With regard to the identity and credit check, Klarna may obtain information from the following credit agencies:

• Schufa Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65203 Wiesbaden

Further information on the activities of SCHUFA can be found in the SCHUFA information sheet in accordance with Art. 14 GDPR or online atwww.schufa.de/datenschutz be viewed

• Creditreform Boniversum GmbH, Hellersbergstrasse 11, 41460 Neuss

Further information on the activities of Creditreform Boniversum GmbH can be found in the information sheet in accordance with Art. 14 GDPR or online atwww.boniversum.de/EU-DSGVO/ be viewed.

• Deutsche Post Direkt GmbH, Junkersring 57, 53844 Troisdorf

Further information on the activities of Deutsche Post Direkt GmbH can be found in the information sheet pursuant to Art. 14 GDPR athttps://www.deutschepost.de/datenschutz be removed.

• infoscore Consumer Data GmbH (part of Arvato Financial Solutions), Rheinstraße 99, 76532 Baden-Baden

Further information on the activities of infoscore Consumer Data GmbH can be found in the information sheet according to Art. 14 DSGVO underhttps://finance.arvato.com/de/datenschutz/ be removed.

• Regis24 GmbH, Wallstrasse 58, 10719 Berlin

Further information on the activities of Regis24 GmbH can be found in the information sheet in accordance with Art. 14 GDPR or online atwww.regis24.de/ be viewed.

• CRIF GmbH, Leopoldstrasse 244, 80807 Munich

Further information on the activities of CRIF Bürgel GmbH can be found in the information sheet in accordance with Art. 14 GDPR or online at

https://www.crif.de/datenschutz be viewed.

 

With regard to fraud prevention, Klarna may obtain information from the following fraud prevention agencies:

• ThreatMetrix, Inc., 230 Park Ave #7, New York, NY 10169, USA

More information about the activities of ThreatMetrix Inc can be found online athttps://risk.lexisnexis.com/group/privacy-policybe viewed.

• Emailage, 1 Fore Street, London, EC2Y 5EJ, UK

Further information on the activities of Emailage can be found online athttps://risk.lexisnexis.com/group/privacy-policy be viewed.

As part of the decision on the payment option purchase on account, Klarna uses information on your previous payment behavior as well as probability values for this behavior in the future, in addition to an address check. The calculation of these score values by Klarna is carried out on the basis of a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical method. Klarna will also use your address data for this purpose. You can find the details on the processing of your data by Klarna in Klarna's data protection declaration athttps://www.klarna.com/de/datenschutz/ remove.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR, ie the processing of your data is necessary for the fulfillment of the agreement on payment of your purchase by purchase on account or prepayment. In addition, the legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on Klarna’s interest in offering you effective and secure payment options and preventing fraud in this context).

4.3.5 Payment by direct bank transfer

Maren Jewelery also offers you the option of paying by means of immediate transfer via the online payment system of Sofort GmbH (Sofort GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich). When paying by direct transfer, Maren Jewelery will receive a payment confirmation from Sofort GmbH in real time, so that Maren Jewelery can immediately start fulfilling the contract.ann.

If you decide to make an immediate transfer, as part of your agreement with Sofort GmbH, you send the PIN and a valid TAN to Sofort GmbH, which they can use to log into your online banking account. Immediately afterwards, Sofort GmbH sends Maren Jewelery a transaction confirmation.

Details on how to pay with Sofortüberweisung can be found in the following link:https://www.sofort.com/datenschutz.html and https://www.klarna.com/sofort/. The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR, ie the processing of your data is necessary for the fulfillment of your agreement with Maren Jewelery about paying for your purchase by immediate transfer.

4.3.6 Evaluation of the Order

Maren Jewelery offers you the opportunity to rate your order in our online shop. To evaluate your purchase and service experience, Maren Jewelery uses the online rating platform Trustpilot, a service of Trustpilot A/S, Pilestraede 58, 5th floor, 1112 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

Trustpilot is an online review community that gives businesses the opportunity to benefit from authentic feedback that customers share about their purchasing and service experiences.

In order to be able to use Trustpilot's services, Maren Jewelery passes on your personal data such as e-mail address, date of order and order number to Trustpilot.

After making a purchase in our online shop, you will receive an e-mail with an invitation to submit a product review and an e-mail with an invitation to submit a service review no more than once a year.

More information about Trustpilot, the processing and visibility of your personal data can be found in the privacy policy of Trustpilot A/S, Pilestraede 58, 5th floor, 1112 Copenhagen K, Denmark, email: support@trustpilot.com, available athttps://de.legal.trustpilot.com/for-reviewers/end-user-privacy-terms

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR (fulfilment of the agreement on the provision of your customer account).

4.3.7 Postal mailings

In the course of your order in our online shop, we receive your postal address to process your order. We also use your postal address to occasionally send you print advertising or offers for our products after your order. You can object to this form of advertising at any time, the easiest way is by sending an informal email toinfo@marenjewellery.com

4.3.8 Payment by bank transfer

Finally, Maren Jewelery offers you the option of paying by bank transfer. If you decide to make a bank transfer, you send your payment and account details directly to your bank, which carries out the payment transaction accordingly. In this respect, your personal data will not be processed by Maren Jewellery.y.

4.4 Sharing of Data

A transfer of your personal data to third parties for other purposes listed below does not take place:

Maren Jewelery will only pass on your personal data to third parties if

• You have given Maren Jewelery your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR,
• the processing is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures according to Art. 6 Para. 1 b) DSGVO,
• in the event that processing pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 c) GDPR is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation,
• the transfer according to Art. 6 Para. 1 f) DSGVO to protect the legitimate interests ofMaren Jewelleryis necessary and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data;

4.5 Email Newsletter

If necessary, Maren Jewelery offers all customers of this website to receive an e-mail newsletter.

Maren Jewelery uses the so-called double opt-in procedure to send the e-mail newsletter, ie a newsletter will only be sent to you by e-mail if you have previously expressly confirmed that Maren Jewelery can use the newsletter service should activate. Therefore, Maren Jewelery will send you a notification e-mail after your registration and ask you to confirm the activation by clicking on a link contained in this e-mail. In this way you agree to receive the email newsletter. When you register for our newsletter, your IP address and the date of registration will be saved. This storage serves solely as proof in the event that a third party misuses your e-mail address to register you for the e-mail newsletter receipt without your knowledge or authorization.

You can revoke your consent to receive the e-mail newsletter at any time and without giving reasons. The easiest way to do this is by clicking on the unsubscribe link, which can be found in every e-mail newsletter.t.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR i. V. with your consent.

Maren Jewelery uses the external service provider Flodesk (Flodesk, Inc., 861 Sutter Street #509, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States) to send out the newsletter. Maren Jewelery only transmits the email addresses required for shipping to Flodesk, which are cached by Flodesk. A complete deletion takes place by Flodesk no later than 30 days after the last time of dispatch. For more information about Flodesk's handling of user data, see Flodesk's privacy policy:https://www.privacypolicies.com/privacy

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR i. V. with your consent or Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on the legitimate and overriding interest of Maren Jewelery in the technically smooth provision of the newsletter and the associated functionalities). In addition, the EU standard contractual clauses have been concluded.

4.6 Contacting You by Email

If you send Maren Jewelery inquiries by e-mail, Maren Jewelery will process the information you provide, including the contact details you have provided, in order to process and respond to the inquiry.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Art. 1 b) GDPR (performance of the contract - the processing of your data is necessary for the fulfillment of the agreement on answering the questions or concerns) or Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (weighing of interests based on the legitimate and overriding interest of Maren Jewelery to process inquiries from customers of this website and to be able to offer customers of this website the best possible service, whereby Maren Jewelery always ensures that the processing of customer data is limited to what is necessary). Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed..

4.7 Chat function on marenjewellery.com

We offer you the opportunity to communicate with Maren Jewelery via the chat function on our website. The provider of this chat function is Tawk.to Ltd., 187 E Warm Springs Rd, SB298, Las Vegas, Nevada 89119, USA (Tawk). In connection with our communication using the Tawk chat function, we process any personal data you provide to answer your questions and then delete this data. In addition, the chat history, your IP address at the time of the chat and your country of origin are processed for security purposes and for internal statistics. Tawk only stores this personal data at the headquarters of its European branch tawk.to Ltd. in England. The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) (fulfillment of contract the processing of your data is necessary for the fulfillment of the agreement on the use of the chat function). For more information on privacy at Tawk, seeer https://www.tawk.to/data-protection/

5. Use of Cookies

5.1 General What are cookiess?

Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your end device to store certain information. The next time you visit this website with the same end device, the information stored in the cookies will be sent back either to this website (first party cookie) or to another website to which the cookie belongs (third party cookie).ndt.

Through the stored and returned information, the respective website recognizes that you have already accessed and visited it with the browser of your end device. Maren Jewelery uses this information to be able to optimally design and display the website according to your preferences. Only the cookie itself is identified on your end device.

Personal data will only be stored with your express consent or if this is absolutely necessary in order to be able to use the service offered and accessed by you accordingly.

5.2 Revocation of consent to the use of cookies

You can revoke your consent to the use of cookies at any time with effect for the future, unless they are absolutely necessary (see Section 5.4.1). here withdraw.

5.3 Deletion of all cookies

You also have the option of generally deactivating cookies in your browser at any time. This prevents the storage of cookies on your end device and means that you will be asked each time whether you agree to the setting of cookies.

However, Maren Jewelery points out that the general deactivation of cookies can lead to functional restrictions in connection with the use of this website.

5.4 Types of cookies in detail

Depending on their purpose and function, cookies are divided into the following categories:

1) Essential cookies

2) Functional and statistical cookies

3) Marketing cookies

Maren Jewelery will inform you below in detail about the different types of cookies and which cookies may be set and used after your consent.n.

5.4.1 Essential Cookies

Essential cookies include strictly necessary cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies ensure functions without which you would not be able to use this website as intended. These cookies are used exclusively by Maren Jewelery and are therefore first party cookies. This means that all information stored in the cookies is fed back to this website.

The use of absolutely necessary cookies on this website is possible and permissible without your consent. For this reason, absolutely necessary cookies cannot be deactivated or activated individually. However, you have the option of generally deactivating cookies in your browser at any time. However, this can lead to functional restrictions in connection with the use of this website.

The legal basis for the use of absolutely necessary cookies is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR (performance of contract) or Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (balancing of interests, based on the legitimate and overriding interest of Maren Jewelery in the technically smooth provision of these website and the functionalities offered via it).

5.4.2 Functional and Statistical Cookies

Functional cookies enable this website to store information that has already been provided (e.g. name or e-mail address) and to offer you improved and more personal functions based on this. Maren Jewelery collects and stores these cookies exclusively in such a way that your customer behavior cannot be tracked on other websites.

The legal basis for the use of functional cookies is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent.

Statistics cookies collect aggregate information about how this website is used in order to improve its attractiveness, content and functionality. These cookies help Maren Jewelery to determine whether, which, how often and for how long sub-pages of this website are visited and what content customers are particularly interested in. In detail, Maren Jewelery records in particular the number of hits on a page, the number of subpages called up, the time spent on this website, the order of the pages visited, which search terms led you to Maren Jewelery, the country, the region and, if applicable, the city from which access is made and the proportion of mobile devices that access this website. Maren Jewelery also records movements, clicks and scrolling with the computer mouse in order to understand which areas of this website are of particular interest to customers. These cookies do not store any information that allows the customer to be identified. The information collected is aggregated and does not allow Maren Jewelery to draw any direct conclusions about your person. They are used solely to create statistics in order to tailor the content of this website more specifically to the needs of the customer, to improve the customer experience and to optimize the Maren Jewelery offer.n.

The legal basis for the use of functional cookies and statistical cookies is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent.

Data transfer to the USA

The services required for these purposes transmit data about your use of this website to the USA. There is currently no decision by the EU Commission that the USA offers an appropriate level of data protection. There are also no other suitable guarantees, enforceable rights and effective legal remedies to protect your data in the USA. This means there is a risk that your data will not be protected in the same way by the US service providers involved as it is in the European Union. The activation of the services and the associated transmission of your data to the USA therefore only takes place on the basis of your expressly declared consent.

Revocation of consent to the use of functional and statistical cookies

You can revoke your consent to the use of functional and statistical cookies at any time with effect for the futurehere withdraw.

Statistics cookies in detail:

1. a. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses these statistics cookies, which are stored on your computer if you give your consent and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Due to the activation of the IP anonymization "anonymizeIp()" on this platform, however, 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 the activities of the platform and to provide other services related to platform use and internet use to the website operator.

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Maren Jewelery uses Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of this website. Maren Jewelery can use the statistics obtained to improve its offer and make it more interesting for you as a customer.

Third Party Information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001, Email: support-deutschland@google.com.

Customer Conditions:http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
Overview of data protection: https://policies.google.com/hl=de&gl=dee
Data protection:http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Maren Jewelery points out that the Google Analytics cookie has a storage period of 26 months.

Order processing:

Maren Jewelery has concluded an order processing contract with Google that has been coordinated with the German data protection authorities.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent.

revocationconsent to the use of statistical cookies:

You can revoke your consent to the use of statistical cookies at any time with effect for the future here withdraw.

Objection to data processing:

You can also prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, Maren Jewelery would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent the collection and transmission of data related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptouthl=dee.

b. Hotjar

This website uses Hotjar. The provider is Hotjar Ltd., Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta (Hotjar).).

Hotjar enables Maren Jewelery to statistically evaluate visitor data. With Hotjar we can record your mouse and scrolling movements and clicks, among other things. Hotjar can also determine how long you stayed with the mouse pointer on a certain spot or how long you stayed on a page, and also when you left it again. Hotjar uses this information to create so-called heat maps, which can be used to determine which website areas are viewed by website visitors. In addition, we can also determine at which point you canceled your entries in our contact form (so-called conversion funnels).

If you have consented to the use of Hotjar, Hotjar automatically collects information about your user behavior during your visit to our website. Maren Jewelery has used its own tracking code to collect this information. The following data can be collected via your computer or your browser:

• IP address of your computer (collected and stored in an anonymous format)

• screen size

• Browser information (which browser, which version, etc.)

• Your location (but only the country)

• Your preferred language setting

• Visited websites (subpages)

• Date and time of access to one of our subpages (websites)

In addition, the cookies set also store data that is placed on your computer (usually in your browser). No personal data is collected in it. In principle, Hotjar does not pass on any collected data to third parties. However, Hotjar expressly points out that it is sometimes necessary to share data with Amazon Web Services. In this case, parts of your information will be stored on their servers. However, Amazon is bound by a duty of confidentiality not to disclose this data. The processing of your data by Hotjar takes place within the framework of the data protection regulations, available athttps://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy. The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent. Revocation of consent to the use of statistical cookies: You can revoke your consent to the use of statistical cookies at any time here with effect for the future.

Objection to data processing:

You have the option to prevent the collection of your data at any time. To do this, you must go to the Hotjar opt-out page, available athttps://www.hotjar.com/privacy/do-not-track/ go and follow the instructions there.

You can also prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, Maren Jewelery would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

5.4.3 Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies come from external advertising companies (third party cookies) and are used to collect information about the websites visited by the user in order to create target group-oriented advertising for the user and to display advertisements tailored to his interests. They are also used to limit the number of times an ad is shown and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. This information may be shared with third parties, such as advertisers.

The legal basis for the use of marketing cookies is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent. Data transfer to the USA

The services required for these marketing purposes transmit data about your use of this website to the USA. There is currently no decision by the EU Commission that the USA offers an appropriate level of data protection. There are also no other suitable guarantees, enforceable rights and effective legal remedies to protect your data in the USA. This means there is a risk that your data will not be protected in the same way by the US service providers involved as it is in the European Union. The activation of the services and the associated transmission of your data to the USA therefore only takes place on the basis of your expressly declared consent.

Revocation of consent to the use of marketing cookies: You can revoke your consent to the use of marketing cookies at any time with effect for the futurehere withdraw.

Objection to data processing:

You can also use the tools developed in many countries as part of self-regulatory programs, such as e.g

• https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (US) or

• http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices (EU) manage.

Marketing cookies in detail:

a. Facebook Custom Audiences (for websites) / Conversion via Facebook Pixel

This website uses the so-called Facebook Pixel from Facebook. The social network Facebook is operated by the company of the same name, Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor for users of our website who are resident in the EU , Dublin 2, Ireland.

• The Facebook pixel is used for the following purposes: Facebook (website) custom audience

On the one hand, Maren Jewelery uses the Facebook pixel for remarketing purposes in order to be able to contact you again within 180 days.

As a result, users of the website can be shown interest-based advertisements (Facebook ads) when they visit Facebook or other websites that also use the process. We are interested in showing you advertising that is of interest to you in order to make our website or offers more interesting for you.ten.

• Facebook conversions

On the other hand, Maren Jewelery would like to use the Facebook pixel to ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interests of users and are not annoying. With the help of the Facebook pixel, we can understand the effectiveness of the Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called conversion).).

Due to the Facebook pixel used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to the Facebook server if you have consented to the use of marketing cookies.

By integrating the Facebook pixel, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed our website or clicked on one of our advertisements and/or carried out other activities on our website (e.g. you have displayed content, placed items in the shopping cart, started a purchase process or you have provided payment details). If you visit other websites that also use Facebook Conversion, this information will also be linked to your user account. However, it is not clear to us which other websites you visit. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can assign your visits to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, there is a possibility that Facebook will find out and store your IP address and other identifiers.t.

The processing of your data by Facebook takes place within the framework of Facebook's data policy, available athttps://www.facebook.com/policy.php. Further information and details about the Facebook pixel and how it works can also be found in the Facebook help area, available at:https://www.facebook.com/business/help.

We would like to point out that this cookie has a term of 180 days.

The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent. Revocation of consent to the use of marketing cookies: You can revoke your consent to the use of marketing cookies at any time here with effect for the future. Objection to data processing: You can prevent the use of the Facebook pixel in various ways by

• make a corresponding setting in your browser software,

• as a logged-in user of the social network Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/settings/tab=ads## change the settings, or

• by deactivating on the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) athttp://www.networkadvertising.org . However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this offer to their full extent.

5.4.4 Affiliate Marketing

This website uses the performance advertising network of AWIN AG, Eichhornstraße 3, 10785 Berlin (hereinafter AWIN). In this context, AWIN stores cookies on the end devices of users who visit or use their customers' websites or other online offers (e.g. subscribing to a newsletter or placing an online order) to document transactions (e.g. sales leads). These cookies are used solely for the purpose of correctly allocating the success of an advertising medium and the corresponding billing within the framework of the network. An individual sequence of digits, which cannot be assigned to the individual user, is stored in the AWIN tracking cookies, with which the partner program of an advertiser, the publisher, and the time of the user's action (click or view) are documented. AWIN uses fingerprinting to collect information about the end device from which a transaction is carried out, e.g. the operating system and the calling browser, and when a specific advertising medium was clicked on from an end device. The legal basis for the associated data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent. Revocation of consent: You can revoke your consent to the use of AWIN Affiliate Marketing Cookies at any time with effect for the futurenft here withdraw. You can find further information on data processing by AWIN in theData protection by AWIN.

6. Third Party Content

The internet lives on connections. For this reason, you will not only find our own content on our website. We have also included third-party content to make our website better, more interesting and more relevant to you. If you call up one of our pages with such third-party content, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of the respective provider and retrieves the content there in order to display it to you.

a. Google reCaptcha

So-called captchas are a security function on our website that is used to determine whether a person or a computer is making a specific entry. For this purpose, Maren Jewelery uses the reCAPTCHA service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google).gle“).

When you visit a page with input options, we transmit information about your access to the reCAPTCHA service. This uses the following information in particular to check whether you are a human or a computer:

• The IP address of your end device;
• referrer (address of the Maren Jewelery website where the captcha is used);
• Information about the browser you are using (e.g. browser type and version, screen resolution, language, installed plugins, time and date);
• If you are registered with Google and logged in, your Google account;
• Your surfing behavior on websites;
• Your input behavior (e.g. your mouse movements on the reCAPTCHA areas);
• If applicable, your answers to small tasks in which you have to identify images.

The cookies used in connection with this tool have a storage period of up to 6 months. For more information, see Google's privacy policy and the Google service terms of use.

7. Use of external service providers

For the operation of this website, external service providers are commissioned with data processing (e.g. for storing data in data centers). If necessary, these service providers also process personal data. The service providers are carefully selected and monitored by Maren Jewellery. They process the data exclusively according to the instructions of Maren Jewelery and are also bound by this data protection declaration.

8. Duration of storage

Maren Jewelery only stores personal data for as long as this is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here, or as provided for by the retention periods stipulated by law. Unless otherwise described herein, the data you provide within the meaning of Section 4.1 will be deleted at the latest after the expiry of any retention periods under commercial and tax law after 6 years.

9. Contradiction

If data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR (data processing to protect legitimate interests based on a balancing of interests), you have the right to object to the processing under the conditions of Art. 21 GDPR. To explain the objection, you can email Maren Jewelery to info@marenjewellery.com.

10. Your Rights

You have the following rights towards Maren Jewelery with regard to your personal data:

• right to information,
• Right to Rectification or Erasure
• Right to restriction of processing

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by Maren Jewelleryto complain.

11. Questions

If you have any questions or suggestions about data protection, you can contact Maren Jewelery at any time.

My contact details:

Maren Jewellery
Owner: Helge Hauptmann
Soeflinger Str. 250
89077 Ulm.

E-mail:info@marenjewellery.com

Status: March 2023