Privacy policy
1) Introduction and Contact Information of the Responsible Party
1.1 We are pleased that you visit our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data by which you can be personally identified.
1.2 The party responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Sibolab UG (limited liability), Kastanienallee 4, 10435 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: 0049 (0) 30 49500833, Fax: 0049 (0) 30 41209906, E-Mail: info@sibolab.de. The party responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.
2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website
2.1 For purely informational use of our website, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display the website:
- The website you visited
- Date and time at the time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/referral from which you reached the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (possibly in anonymized form)
The processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. There is no transfer or other use of the data. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files afterward if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the responsible party), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the "https://" in the browser line and the lock symbol.
3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
Shopify
For hosting our website and displaying page content, we use the system of the following provider: Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd Floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland ("Shopify")
Data are also transmitted to: Shopify Inc., 150 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L4, Canada
All data collected on our website are processed on the provider's servers. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, ensuring the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibiting unauthorized transfer to third parties.
For data transfers to Canada, an adequate level of data protection is guaranteed by an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
4) Cookies
To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e., small text files stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted when the browser is closed (so-called "session cookies"), while others remain longer on your device and allow storing page settings (so-called "persistent cookies"). For the latter, you can see the storage duration in the overview of your browser's cookie settings.
If personal data are processed through cookies we use, the processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR to perform a contract, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR if consent has been given, or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in optimal website functionality and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
You can configure your browser to be informed about cookie placement and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contact
When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or e-mail), personal data are processed solely for the purpose of handling and responding to your inquiry and only to the extent necessary.
The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted when the circumstances show that the matter has been finally resolved and provided no legal retention obligations exist.
6) Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account
Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, personal data are also collected and processed to the extent necessary when you provide them to us when opening a customer account. The required data for opening an account can be found in the input mask of the corresponding form on our website.
Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be requested via a message to the above address of the responsible party. After deletion, your data will be deleted provided all related contracts have been fully completed, no legal retention periods prevent deletion, and we have no legitimate interest in further storage.
7) Use of Customer Data for Direct Marketing
7.1 Subscription to Our E-Mail Newsletter
If you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, we will regularly send you information about our offers. The only mandatory information for sending the newsletter is your email address. Providing additional data is voluntary and used to address you personally. We use the so-called double opt-in process for sending newsletters to ensure that you only receive newsletters after explicitly confirming your consent via a verification link sent to the provided email address.
By activating the confirmation link, you consent to the use of your personal data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. We store the IP address assigned by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the date and time of registration to trace any potential misuse of your email address later. The data collected during newsletter registration are used strictly for this purpose.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by sending a message to the responsible party mentioned above. After unsubscribing, your email address will be promptly deleted from our newsletter distribution list, unless you have explicitly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right for other legally permitted data use, which we disclose in this policy.