Privacy policy

1) Information about the Collection of Personal Data and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting 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 refers to any data by which you can be personally identified.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:


Apollo Dion GmbH
Tränkestraße 9 b
70597 Stuttgart
Germany
Tel.: ‭+49 711 25087230‬
Email: info@apollo-dion.de

The person 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 the processing of personal data.

1.3 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the sequence “https://” and the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

2) Data Collection when Visiting Our Website

When using our website for purely informational purposes, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

  • The website visited

  • Date and time at the time of access

  • Amount of data sent in bytes

  • Source/referrer from which you accessed the page

  • Browser used

  • Operating system used

  • IP address used (if applicable, in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. No transfer or other use of the data takes place. However, we reserve the right to retrospectively check the server log files if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.

3) 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 you close the browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period and allow the storage of site settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of your web browser’s cookie settings.

If individual cookies we use also process personal data, this processing is carried out in accordance with:

  • Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for the execution of the contract,

  • Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in the case of given consent, or

  • Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the optimal functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective design of the site visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them, or to exclude the acceptance of cookies either in specific cases or generally.

Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

4) Contact

4.1 Review Reminder via eKomi
If you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR during or after your order, we will transmit your email address to the review platform eKomi, operated by eKomi Ltd., Markgrafenstraße 11, 10969 Berlin (www.ekomi.de), so that they can send you a review reminder via email.
You may revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the controller responsible for data processing or directly to the review platform.

4.2 Review Reminder via Trustpilot
If you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR during or after your order, we will transmit your email address to the review platform Trustpilot, operated by Trustpilot A/S, Pilestræde 58, 1112 Copenhagen K, Denmark (www.trustpilot.com), so that they can send you a review reminder via email.
You may revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the controller responsible for data processing or directly to the review platform.

4.3 Contacting Us
When contacting us (e.g., via contact form or email), personal data is processed exclusively for the purpose of handling and responding to your inquiry and only to the extent necessary. The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact aims to conclude a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted once it can be concluded from the circumstances that the matter has been fully resolved, provided no statutory retention obligations exist.

5) Data Processing When Opening a Customer Account

In accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed to the extent necessary when you provide it to us for opening a customer account. The data required for account creation can be found in the corresponding input fields on our website. Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time by sending a message to the above-mentioned address of the controller. After deletion of your customer account, your data will be deleted, provided that all contracts concluded through the account have been fully processed, no statutory retention periods prevent deletion, and we have no legitimate interest in retaining the data.

6) Comment Function

When using the comment function on this website, in addition to your comment, the time of comment creation and the username you selected are stored and published on this website. Furthermore, your IP address is stored for security reasons to enable attribution in the event of unlawful comments. Your email address will be stored for contacting you if a third party challenges your published content as illegal.

7) Use of Customer Data for Direct Marketing

Newsletter Registration
If you register for our email newsletter, we will regularly send you information about our offers. The only mandatory information for receiving the newsletter is your email address. Providing additional data is voluntary and is used to address you personally. For newsletter distribution, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure, ensuring that you only receive the newsletter after explicitly confirming your consent via a verification link sent to the email address provided.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. In this process, we store your IP address as recorded by your internet service provider (ISP) and the date and time of registration to track potential misuse of your email address at a later time. The data collected during newsletter registration is 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 controller mentioned above. After unsubscribing, your email address will be immediately removed from our newsletter distribution list unless you have explicitly consented to further use of your data or we reserve legally permitted use beyond this, which will be disclosed in this privacy statement.

8) Data Processing for Order Fulfillment

To the extent necessary for contract processing for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data we collect will be shared with the commissioned transport company and the contracted financial institution in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

If, under the basis of a corresponding contract, we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products, we process the contact data (name, address, email) you provided during the order to inform you personally via an appropriate communication channel (e.g., post or email) about upcoming updates within the legally prescribed period in accordance with Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Your contact data is used strictly for this purpose, and processing is limited to what is necessary to provide the updates.

For the fulfillment of your order, we also cooperate with the following service provider(s) who assist us wholly or partially in carrying out concluded contracts. Certain personal data will be transmitted to these service providers as described below.

9) Online Marketing

– Google AdSense
This website uses Google AdSense, a web advertising service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). Google AdSense uses so-called cookies, i.e., text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. In addition, Google AdSense also uses “web beacons” (small invisible graphics) to collect information, through which simple actions, such as visitor traffic on the website, can be recorded, collected, and evaluated. The information generated by the cookie and/or web beacon (including your IP address) about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server and stored there. This may also involve transmission to the servers of Google LLC in the USA.

Google uses the information obtained in this way to evaluate your usage behavior with respect to AdSense ads. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google AdSense is not merged with other data held by Google. The information collected by Google may be transferred to third parties if legally required and/or if third parties process the data on Google’s behalf.

All of the processing described above, in particular reading information from the device used via cookies and/or web beacons, is carried out only if you have given us your explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Without this consent, Google AdSense will not be used during your visit to the site.

You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by disabling this service in the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website.

Google’s privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

– Google Ads Conversion Tracking
This website uses the online advertising program “Google Ads” and, within Google Ads, the conversion tracking of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). We use Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites using advertising media (so-called Google AdWords). We can determine the success of individual advertising measures regarding the data from the campaigns. We pursue the objective of showing you advertisements that may be of interest to you, making our website more attractive to you, and achieving a fair calculation of advertising costs.

The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad displayed by Google Ads. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. These cookies usually 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 Ads customer receives a different cookie, so cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of Google Ads customers. The information obtained via the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Google Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers only learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag; they do not receive any information that could personally identify users. In the context of using Google Ads, personal data may also be transferred to the servers of Google LLC in the USA.

Details on the processing triggered by Google Ads conversion tracking and on how Google handles website data can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

All the processing described above, in particular setting cookies to read information on your device, is carried out only if you have given us your explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by disabling this service in the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website.

You can also permanently object to the setting of cookies via Google Ads Conversion Tracking by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de

Please note that certain functions of this website may not be available or only partially usable if you disable the use of cookies.

Google’s privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

– Google Ads Conversion Tracking Without Cookies
This website uses the online advertising program “Google Ads” and, within Google Ads, the conversion tracking of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). We use Google Ads to draw attention to our attractive offers on external websites using advertising media (so-called Google AdWords). We can determine the success of individual advertising measures regarding the data from the campaigns. We pursue the objective of showing you advertisements that may be of interest to you, making our website more attractive to you, and achieving a fair calculation of advertising costs.

This website uses Google Ads Conversion Tracking exclusively without cookies, meaning that the service does not set cookies on your device at any time. Instead, your browser’s local storage is used to store an individual ID assigned by Google, which allows analysis of your website usage. Certain user information is processed via this ID.

The ID is set when a user clicks on a Google ad. If the user visits certain pages of this website, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google Ads customer receives a different cookie, so cookies cannot be tracked across Google Ads customer websites. The information obtained in this way is used to create conversion statistics for Google Ads customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers only learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag; they do not receive any information that could personally identify users. Personal data may also be transferred to the servers of Google LLC in the USA.

If the collected information contains personal data, processing is carried out pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in statistically evaluating the success of our advertising campaigns.

Google’s privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

10) Website Functionality
10.1 Facebook Plugins with Shariff Solution
Our website uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from the social network Facebook, operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”).

To enhance the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not fully implemented as plugins but are only embedded using an HTML link. This ensures that no connection to Facebook servers is established when a page containing these buttons is loaded. If you click the button, a new browser window opens, directing you to Facebook, where you can interact with the plugins (possibly after logging in).

The purpose and scope of data collection, further processing, and use by Facebook, as well as your rights and settings options for privacy protection, can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

10.2 Instagram Plugin with Shariff Solution
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) from the online service Instagram, operated by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”).

To enhance the protection of your data when visiting our website, these buttons are not fully implemented as plugins but are only embedded using an HTML link. This ensures that no connection to Instagram servers is established when a page containing these buttons is loaded. If you click the button, a new browser window opens, directing you to Instagram, where you can interact with the plugins (possibly after logging in).

The purpose and scope of data collection, further processing, and use by Instagram, as well as your rights and settings options for privacy protection, can be found in Instagram’s privacy help: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388/

11) Data Subject Rights
11.1 Under applicable data protection law, you have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data by the controller (with the respective legal basis cited):

  • Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;

  • Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;

  • Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;

  • Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;

  • Right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;

  • Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;

  • Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR;

  • Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.

11.2 Right to Object

If we process your personal data based on a legitimate interest following a balancing of interests, you have the right to object at any time, for reasons related to your particular situation, with future effect.

If you exercise your right to object, we will cease processing the relevant data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data for such advertising. If you exercise your right to object, we will stop processing the data for direct marketing purposes.

12) Duration of Storage of Personal Data
The duration of storage of personal data depends on the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing, and—if applicable—the statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention obligations).

If personal data is processed based on explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data is stored until the data subject withdraws consent.

If statutory retention periods exist for data processed in the context of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations under Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, the data is routinely deleted after the retention periods expire, provided it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or initiation and/or we have no legitimate interest in further storage.

For processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, data is stored until the data subject exercises the right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for processing that override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

For data processed for direct marketing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, data is stored until the data subject exercises the right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise specified in this privacy policy regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data is deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

Date: 08.05.2024