Privacy

1) Information about the collection of personal data and contact details of the controller

1.1 We are delighted that you have visited our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we provide information about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally.

1.2 The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ABC Medien GmbH, Prager Straße 287, 1210 Vienna, Austria, Tel.: (0043) 01 2294000, Fax: (0043) 01 2294000 599, email: info@adventistbookcenter.at. The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines 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 “https://” string and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2) Data collection when you visit our website

When you use our website for informational purposes only, 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 visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• Our visited website
• Date and time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you accessed the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

3) Cookies

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies). If cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information, such as browser and location data and IP address values, to the extent specified. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie.

Some cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by storing settings (e.g., remembering the contents of a virtual shopping cart for a later visit to the website). If personal data is also processed by individual cookies implemented by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.

We may work with advertising partners who help us make our website more interesting for you. For this purpose, cookies from partner companies are also stored on your hard drive when you visit our website (third-party cookies). If we work with the aforementioned advertising partners, you will be informed individually and separately about the use of such cookies and the scope of the information collected in each case in the following paragraphs.

Please note that you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings. You can find these for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/... Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de... Chrome: https://support.google.com/chr... Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/p... Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/...

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

4) Contact

When you contact us (e.g. via the contact form or email), personal data is collected. The data collected in the contact form is evident from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for establishing contact and the associated technical administration. The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed, which is the case if the circumstances indicate that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no legal obligations to retain the data.

5) Data processing when opening a customer account and for contract processing

In accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, personal data will continue to be collected and processed if you provide it to us for the purpose of executing a contract or when opening a customer account. The data that is collected can be seen in the respective input forms. You can delete your customer account at any time by sending a message to the above address of the controller. We store and use the data you provide for contract processing. After complete fulfillment of the contract or deletion of your customer account, your data will be blocked in accordance with tax and commercial law retention periods and deleted after these periods have expired, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we have reserved the right to further use your data in accordance with the law, about which we will inform you accordingly below.

6) Use of your data for direct marketing

6.1 Registration for our email newsletter

If you register for our email newsletter, we will send you regular information about our offers. The only mandatory information required for sending the newsletter is your email address. The provision of any further data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. We use the double opt-in procedure to send the newsletter. This means that we will only send you an email newsletter once you have expressly confirmed that you agree to receive the newsletter. We will then send you a confirmation email asking you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter in future by clicking on a corresponding link.

By activating the confirmation link, you give us your consent to use your personal data in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. When you register for the newsletter, we store your IP address entered by your Internet service provider (ISP) as well as the date and time of registration in order to be able to trace any possible misuse of your email address at a later date. The data collected by us when you register for the newsletter will be used exclusively for the purpose of sending you advertising via the newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link provided in the newsletter or by sending a message to the controller named above. After you unsubscribe, your email address will be deleted from our newsletter distribution list immediately, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data for other purposes that are permitted by law and about which we inform you in this statement.

6.2 Advertising by post

Based on our legitimate interest in personalized direct advertising, we reserve the right to store your first and last name, your postal address and, if we have received this additional information from you within the scope of the contractual relationship, your title, academic degree, year of birth, and your professional, industry, or business designation in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and use them to send you interesting offers and information about our products by post.

You can object to the storage and use of your data for this purpose at any time by sending a message to the controller.

7) Data processing for order processing

7.1 To process your order, we work with the following service providers, who support us in whole or in part in the execution of concluded contracts. Certain personal data is transferred to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

The personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company responsible for delivery within the scope of contract processing, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of the goods. We pass on your payment details to the commissioned credit institution within the scope of payment processing, insofar as this is necessary for payment processing. If payment service providers are used, we will inform you of this explicitly below. The legal basis for the transfer of data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

7.2 Use of special service providers for order processing and fulfillment

- Amazon Order processing is carried out by the service provider “Amazon” (Amazon EU S.à r.l., 5, Rue Plaetis 2338, Luxembourg) as part of “Shipping by Amazon” (= Fulfilment by Amazon). Your personal data will only be passed on to Amazon for the purpose of processing your online order. The transfer is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR and only to the extent necessary for order processing. Details on data protection at Amazon and Amazon's privacy policy can be found at the following link: http://www.amazon.de/gp/help/c...

8) Use of social media: social plugins

AddThis bookmarking as standard plugin

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) from the bookmarking service AddThis, which is operated by AddThis LLC, Inc. 8000 Westpark Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210, USA (“AddThis”) as part of Oracle Corporation. The plugins are usually identified by an AddThis logo, for example in the form of a white plus sign on an orange background. An overview of the AddThis plugins and their appearance can be found here: https://www.addthis.com/get/sh...

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the AddThis servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from AddThis to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, AddThis stores a cookie on your device and collects your IP address and the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to an AddThis server in the USA and stored there. If you interact with the plugins, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The data processing operations described above are carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR on the basis of AddThis' legitimate interests in displaying personalized advertising, informing other users of the social network about your activities on our website, and designing the service to meet your needs.

If you wish to object to the collection of data by AddThis in the future, you can set a so-called opt-out cookie, which you can download at the following link: http://www.addthis.com/privacy... You can also completely prevent the AddThis plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker “NoScript” (http://noscript.net/).

Oracle Corporation, the parent company of AddThis, based in the USA, is certified under the US-European data protection agreement “Privacy Shield,” which ensures compliance with the data protection standards applicable in the EU.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by AddThis, as well as your rights in this regard and settings options for protecting your privacy, can be found in the AddThis privacy policy: http://www.addthis.com/privacy...

9) Use of social media: videos

Use of YouTube videos

This website uses the YouTube embedding function to display and play videos from the provider “YouTube,” which is owned by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

The extended data protection mode is used here, which, according to the provider, only starts storing user information when the video(s) are played. When the playback of embedded YouTube videos is started, the provider “YouTube” uses cookies to collect information about user behavior. According to YouTube, this information is used, among other things, to compile video statistics, improve user-friendliness, and prevent abusive behavior. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account when you click on a video. If you do not want this association with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and evaluates them. Such evaluation is carried out in particular in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of Google's legitimate interests in displaying personalized advertising, market research, and/or the needs-based design of its website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.

Regardless of whether the embedded videos are played, a connection to the Google network “DoubleClick” is established each time this website is accessed, which may trigger further data processing operations beyond our control.

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 on data protection at YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/...

10) Tools and miscellaneous

10.1 Google reCAPTCHA

On this website, we also use the reCAPTCHA function provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). This function is primarily used to distinguish whether an entry is made by a natural person or is being made abusively by machine or automated processing. The service includes the transmission of the IP address and, if necessary, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google and is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in determining the individual intent of actions on the Internet and preventing misuse and spam.

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 on Google reCAPTCHA and Google's privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.com/intl/de...

10.2 Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) for the uniform display of fonts. When you visit a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.

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 on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/... and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policie...

11) Rights of the data subject

11.1 The applicable data protection law grants you comprehensive rights as a data subject (rights of access and intervention) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, which we inform you about below:

• Right to information pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR: In particular, you have the right to information about your personal data processed by us, the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period or the criteria for determining the storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing, complaint to a supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, where applicable, meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and intended effects of such processing, as well as your right to be informed of the guarantees in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR when your data is transferred to third countries;
• Right to rectification in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR: You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate data concerning you and/or the completion of your incomplete data stored by us without undue delay;
• Right to erasure in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR: You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data if the conditions of Art. 17 (1) GDPR are met. However, this right does not apply in particular if the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
• Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data while the accuracy of your data is being verified if you refuse to delete your data due to unlawful data processing and instead request the restriction of the processing of your data if you require your data for the assertion, exercise or defend legal claims after we no longer need this data for the purpose for which it was collected, or if you have lodged an objection on grounds relating to your particular situation, pending verification of whether our legitimate grounds take precedence;
• Right to notification pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR: If you have asserted your right to rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing against the controller, the controller is obliged to notify all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.
• Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR: You have the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another controller, provided that this is technically feasible.
• Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7 (3) GDPR: You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of data at any time with future effect. In the event of withdrawal, we will delete the data concerned immediately, unless further processing is based on a legal basis for processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
• Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR: If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.

11.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF, IN THE CONTEXT OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION. IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED, HOWEVER, IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

12) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective statutory retention period (e.g., commercial and tax retention periods). After expiry of the period, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted, provided that it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or for the initiation of a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in further storage.