Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data

(1) Below we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is any data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, email addresses, user behavior.

(2) The controller pursuant to Article 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the

Halal Distributions

Luxemburger Straße 60

50674 Cologne

Email: info@halal-online-shop.de

(3) When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, and optionally your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We will delete the data collected in this context once storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

(4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our service or wish to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We will also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

§ 2 Your rights

(1) You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

– Right to information,

– Right to rectification or erasure,

– Right to restriction of processing,

– Right to object to processing,

– Right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data.

Section 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website

(1) When you use our website for purely informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

– IP address

– Date and time of the request

– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

– Content of the request (specific page)

– Access status/HTTP status code

– amount of data transferred in each case

– Website from which the request originates

– Browser

– Operating system and its interface

– Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and assigned to the browser you are using. They allow the entity that sets the cookie (in this case, us) to receive certain information. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the overall internet experience more user-friendly and effective.

(3) Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and function of which are explained below:

– Transient cookies (see b)

– Persistent cookies (see c).

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These include session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, which allows different requests from your browser to be associated with the same session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a predetermined period, which can vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in your browser's security settings.

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.

§ 4 Further functions and services of our website

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For this, you will generally need to provide further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) is omitted

(3) We may also share your personal data with third parties if we offer promotions, contests, contracts, or similar services jointly with partners. You will receive more detailed information when you provide your personal data or below in the description of the offer.

(4) If our service providers or partners are located in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this in the description of the offer.

§ 5 Objection or revocation to the processing of your data

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can withdraw it at any time. Such a withdrawal will affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data after you have communicated it to us.

(2) Where we base the processing of your personal data on a balancing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case, in particular, if the processing is not necessary for the performance of a contract with you, which we will explain in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, please state the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will review the situation and either cease or adjust the data processing or demonstrate to you our compelling legitimate grounds for continuing the processing.

(3) You can, of course, object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes at any time. You can inform us of your objection to advertising using the contact details provided above.

Section 6 is repealed

Section 7 is repealed

§ 8 Usage-based advertising content

(1) is omitted

(2) This website uses the online advertising program "Google AdWords" and, within the framework of Google AdWords, the conversion tracking service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). We use Google AdWords to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites using advertising materials (so-called Google AdWords). We can determine the success of individual advertising measures in relation to the data from the advertising campaigns. Our aim is to show you advertising that is relevant to you, to make our website more interesting for you, and to achieve a fair calculation of advertising costs.

The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an AdWords ad served by Google. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer system. These cookies typically expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Therefore, cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of different AdWords customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. These customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can block this by disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie in your browser's user settings. You will then not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. We use Google AdWords based on our legitimate interest in targeted advertising pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

You can find further information about Google's privacy policy at the following web address: http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

You can permanently disable cookies for ad preferences by preventing them through a corresponding setting in your browser software or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:

http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de

Please note that certain features of this website may not be available or may be limited if you have disabled the use of cookies.

(3) Our website uses the functions of Google AdWords Remarketing. We use this to advertise this website in Google search results and on third-party websites. The provider is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). For this purpose, Google places a cookie in the browser of your device, which automatically enables interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous cookie ID and based on the pages you have visited. This processing is carried out for the purpose of and based on our legitimate interest in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Further data processing only takes place if you have consented to Google linking your internet and app browsing history to your Google account and using information from your Google account to personalize ads you see on the web. If you are logged into Google during your visit to our website, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target audience lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, your personal data is temporarily linked by Google with Google Analytics data to create target audiences.

You can permanently disable the setting of cookies for ad preferences by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

Alternatively, you can find information about cookies and adjust your settings at the Digital Advertising Alliance website: www.aboutads.info. Finally, you can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are being set, allowing you to decide whether to accept them individually, or to block cookies entirely or for specific websites. Please note that disabling cookies may limit the functionality of our website.

Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield”, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.

Further information and the privacy policy regarding advertising and Google can be found here:

http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

(4) Furthermore, the website uses the "Custom Audiences" remarketing function via the Facebook Inc. pixel ("Facebook"). This allows users of the website to be shown interest-based advertisements ("Facebook Ads") when visiting the Facebook social network or other websites that also use this technology. Our aim is to show you advertising that is relevant to you in order to make our website more interesting for you.

Due to the marketing tools used, your browser automatically establishes a direct connection to Facebook's server. We have no control over the scope and further use of the data collected by Facebook through the use of this tool and therefore inform you to the best of our knowledge: By integrating Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives the information that you have visited the corresponding page of our website or clicked on one of our ads. If you are registered with a Facebook service, Facebook can associate your visit with your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or are not logged in, it is possible that the provider will obtain and store your IP address and other identifying information.

If you do not want Facebook to directly associate the collected information with your Facebook profile, you must either log out of Facebook before visiting our site or use the add-on provided by Facebook for your browser: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ . This will allow you to block the loading of Facebook plugins.
For more information about how Facebook collects and uses data, your related rights and options for protecting your privacy, please see Facebook's privacy policy.

The "Facebook Custom Audiences" feature can be deactivated [here and] for logged-in users at https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads# possible.

The processing is carried out for the purpose of and based on our legitimate interest in the optimal marketing of our website in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Further information on data processing by Facebook can be found at [link to Facebook's privacy policy]. https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy .

(5) This website uses the Hotjar analytics service to improve usability and customer experience. Mouse clicks, mouse movements, and scrolling may be recorded. Keyboard input on this website may also be recorded. However, the recording is not personalized and therefore remains anonymous. Hotjar does not record this data on pages that do not use the Hotjar system. You can deactivate the Hotjar service by logging in to [link to Hotjar settings]. https://www.hotjar.com/contact Contact Hotjar.

§ 8 Use of social media plug-ins

(1) We currently use the following social media plugins: Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Google Plus. We use the so-called two-click solution. This means that when you visit our site, no personal data is initially transmitted to the plugin providers. You can identify the plugin provider by the marking on the box above its initial letter or logo. We offer you the option of communicating directly with the plugin provider via the button. Only when you click on the marked field and thereby activate it will the plugin provider receive the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. In addition, the data specified in Section 3 of this policy will be transmitted. By activating the plugin, your personal data will be transmitted to the respective plugin provider and stored there (in the USA for US providers). Since the plugin provider collects data primarily via cookies, we recommend that you delete all cookies via your browser's security settings before clicking on the grayed-out box.

(2) We have no influence on the data collected and data processing operations, nor are we aware of the full extent of the data collection, the purposes of the processing, or the storage periods. We also have no information regarding the deletion of the collected data by the plug-in provider.

(3) The plug-in provider stores the data collected about you as user profiles and uses them for advertising, market research, and/or to tailor its website to user needs. This analysis is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to display targeted advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and to exercise this right, you must contact the respective plug-in provider. The plug-ins allow you to interact with social networks and other users, enabling us to improve our services and make them more interesting for you. The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

(4) Data is transferred regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in. If you are logged in to the plug-in provider, the data we collect from you will be directly associated with your existing account with that provider. If you click the activated button and, for example, share the page, the plug-in provider will also store this information in your user account and share it publicly with your contacts. We recommend that you log out of social networks regularly after use, and especially before activating the button, as this will prevent the data from being associated with your profile on the plug-in provider's platform.

(5) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the privacy policies of these providers, which are linked below. There you will also find further information on your rights and settings options to protect your privacy.

(6) Addresses of the respective plug-in providers and URLs with their privacy policies:

a) Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA; http://www.facebook.com/policy.php ; further information on data collection: http://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084 , http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#applications as well as  http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#everyoneinfo . Facebook has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

b) Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, California 94103, USA; https://twitter.com/privacy . Twitter has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework .

c) Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103-490, USA: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

Pinterest has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework .

d) Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/?hl=de . Google has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework .

§ 9 Payment methods

The legal basis for processing payments is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) and, insofar as your consent is given, lit. a) GDPR.

(1) Purchase on account

When paying via Paymorrow GmbH, personal data is transmitted to the payment service provider Paymorrow (Paymorrow GmbH, Alstertor 9, 20095 Hamburg) and processed there.

For the "Buy on Account" payment method, Paymorrow checks whether the customer's request to purchase on account can be accepted with regard to potential payment and default risks (acceptance check according to risk guidelines), or whether, in consultation with the online shop operator, another payment method should be used. For this purpose, Paymorrow conducts its own acceptance check after the desired payment method, "Buy on Account," has been selected. This requires an identity, creditworthiness, and solvency check with the credit agencies listed below.

The data processing serves the purpose of offering the selected payment method and the necessary credit check.

The processing is based on Article 6(1)(a) GDPR with your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent before its withdrawal.

As part of the identity verification process, you consent to Paymorrow transmitting your personal data to SCHUFA (SCHUFA Holding AG, Kormoranweg 5, 65201 Wiesbaden) for the purpose of identity verification. SCHUFA will then transmit back to Paymorrow the degree of match between the personal data stored in its database and the personal data you provided, expressed as a percentage, as well as, if applicable, information about any previous identity verification checks carried out by SCHUFA or another contractual partner. Based on the transmitted match rates, Paymorrow can thus determine whether a person is registered in SCHUFA's database at the address you provided. No further data exchange or transmission of differing addresses will take place, nor will your data be stored in SCHUFA's database. For evidentiary purposes, only the fact that the address was verified with SCHUFA will be recorded.

To carry out the credit check as part of the acceptance process, we require the following personal data from you: title, first and last name; place of residence (street, house number, postal code, city); date of birth; telephone number. The use, processing, and transfer of the aforementioned personal data by the online shop operator and Paymorrow, as well as the transfer of this data by Paymorrow to the aforementioned credit agencies for the purpose of the credit check, requires your consent.

Therefore, as part of the ordering process, you will be asked to consent to the storage, processing and use of your personal data by the online shop operator or Paymorrow for the purpose of credit checks and to the transfer of this data to credit agencies, including the transfer of data to third parties.

Paymorrow reserves the right to transfer personal data to service providers or financial partners commissioned by Paymorrow for the aforementioned purposes, or to grant them access to such data, insofar as this is necessary for the performance of their tasks.

Naturally, we respect the customer's decision not to grant consent. However, in this case, neither the online shop operator nor Paymorrow can fulfill the customer's request to purchase on account.

For credit assessment purposes, Paymorrow or partner companies commissioned by Paymorrow may, within the legally permissible framework and taking into account your respective legitimate interests in excluding the transfer or use of your data, transmit your address data to credit agencies for creditworthiness and credit checks when you register for invoice payment. For the purpose of creditworthiness and credit assessment, we obtain information on the customer's previous purchasing and payment behavior and credit information based on mathematical-statistical methods using address data (scoring – to calculate payment probabilities) from the following credit agencies, which store data for providing information:

Bürgel, Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen GmbH & Co. KG, Gasstraße 18, D-22761 Hamburg, Tel.: +49 (0) 40 - 89 80 3 - 0, Fax: -777;

CEG, Creditreform Consumer GmbH, Hellersbergstr. 11, D-41460 Neuss, Tel.:+49(0)2131-109-501, Fax: -557;

Deltavista, Deltavista GmbH, Freisinger Landstr. 74, D-80939 Munich, Tel.: +49 (0)89 - 7244880, Fax: - 22;

infoscore Consumer Data GmbH, Data Protection Department, Rheinstraße 99, D-76532 Baden-Baden, Fax: +49 (7221) 5040-3201;

"Real" Inform GmbH, Normannenweg 32, 20537 Hamburg, Fax: +49 40 23 88 14-59.

You can request information about the data stored about you by contacting the respective credit reporting agencies directly. Furthermore, data concerning the conclusion, application, commencement, and/or termination of a contractual relationship may be transmitted to these agencies. Similarly, the online shop operator/Paymorrow may share information about any non-contractual behavior with the credit reporting agencies. The credit reporting agencies store this data to provide their contractual partners, upon credible demonstration of a legitimate interest, with information for assessing customer creditworthiness or for locating the customer's address for debt collection purposes. Paymorrow ensures that the aforementioned credit reporting agencies process and/or use your personal data exclusively for the purpose of "creditworthiness and credit checks."

Providing this data is necessary for concluding the contract with your chosen payment method. Failure to provide this data will result in the contract not being able to be concluded with your selected payment method.

(2) PayPal

The data controller has integrated components from PayPal on this website. PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed via PayPal accounts, which are virtual private or business accounts. PayPal also allows users to make virtual payments via credit card if they do not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an email address, so there is no traditional account number. PayPal enables users to send and receive online payments. PayPal also acts as an escrow service and offers buyer protection.

PayPal's European operating company is PayPal (Europe) S.à.rl & Cie. SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

If the data subject selects "PayPal" as the payment method during the ordering process in our online shop, their data will be automatically transmitted to PayPal. By selecting this payment option, the data subject consents to the transfer of personal data necessary for payment processing.

The personal data transmitted to PayPal typically includes first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, and other data necessary for payment processing. Personal data related to the specific order is also necessary for processing the purchase agreement.

The data is transmitted for the purpose of payment processing and fraud prevention. The data controller will transmit personal data to PayPal, in particular, when there is a legitimate interest in doing so. The personal data exchanged between PayPal and the data controller may be transmitted by PayPal to credit reference agencies. This transmission is for the purpose of identity and creditworthiness verification.

PayPal may share personal data with affiliated companies and service providers or subcontractors to the extent necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or to process the data on its behalf.

The data subject has the right to withdraw their consent to the processing of their personal data by PayPal at any time. Such withdrawal does not affect personal data that must be processed, used, or transmitted for the (contractual) processing of payments. PayPal's applicable data protection regulations can be found at [link to PayPal's privacy policy]. http://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full can be retrieved.

(3) Instant bank transfer / Klarna

When selecting the payment method "SOFORT," payment processing is handled by the payment service provider SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany (hereinafter "SOFORT"), to whom we transfer the information you provided during the ordering process, along with information about your order, in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b GDPR. SOFORT GmbH is part of the Klarna Group (Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 11134 Stockholm, Sweden). Your data is transferred exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the payment service provider SOFORT and only to the extent necessary for this purpose. You can find further information about SOFORT's data protection policy at the following web address: https://www.klarna.com/sofort/datenschutz .

(4) Amazon Pay

When you select "Amazon Pay" as your payment method, payment processing is handled by the payment service provider Amazon Payments Europe sca, 5 Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg (hereinafter: "Amazon Payments"), to whom we transfer the information you provided during the ordering process, along with information about your order, in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data is transferred exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the payment service provider Amazon Payments and only to the extent necessary for this purpose. You can find further information about Amazon Payments' privacy policy at the following web address: https://pay.amazon.com/de/help/201751600

§ 10 Linked Content / Sharing Functions

Our website contains links to our social media profiles and the option to share content from our website via social networks. No personal data is collected in connection with providing these features until you use the corresponding function after logging in to the respective provider. The respective privacy policies and data protection notices of the platform operators apply. Please note that we are not responsible for the data processing practices on third-party platforms outside of our control.

Section 11 is repealed

Google Analytics Add-on

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies," which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand 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 transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating 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 may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that in this case you may not be able to fully utilize all the functions of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google from collecting and processing data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link click.
An opt-out cookie will be set, which will prevent the future collection of your data when you visit this website.

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found under the Google Analytics Terms or under the Google Analytics Overview . Please note that on this website, Google Analytics has been extended with the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).