Data protection

RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA PROCESSING IS:

Finnley Baawine

Terminalstrasse Mitte 18,

Bavaria, 85356,

Germany

Email: info@silvervintage.shop

We appreciate your interest in our online shop. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information about how we handle your data.
 


1. INTRODUCTION

We appreciate your interest in our website and our business, especially the sale of clothing through our online shop. The protection of your personal data is important to us. Below, we inform you about the collection, processing, and use of your data in connection with the use of our website and our business activities in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1.1 ACCESS DATA AND HOSTING

You can visit our website without providing any personal information. Each time you access a website, the web server automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name of the requested file, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred and the requesting provider (access data), and documents the access. This access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring trouble-free operation of the website and improving our offering. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in a correct presentation of our offering in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests. All access data is deleted no later than seven days after the end of your visit to the website.

1.2 HOSTING

The services for hosting and displaying the website are partially provided by our service providers as part of processing on our behalf. Unless otherwise stated in this privacy policy, all access data and all data collected in forms provided for this purpose on this website are processed on their servers. If you have any questions about our service providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please contact them using the contact details described in this privacy policy.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection: Canada

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the USA and other countries outside the EU and EEA. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for these countries. Our cooperation with them is based on standard data protection clauses of the European Commission.

2. DATA PROCESSING FOR CONTRACT EXECUTION AND FOR ESTABLISHING CONTACT

2.1 DATA PROCESSING FOR CONTRACT EXECUTION

For the purpose of contract processing (including inquiries regarding and processing of any existing warranty and performance claims, as well as any statutory update obligations) in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, we collect personal data when you voluntarily provide it to us as part of your order. Mandatory fields are marked as such, as in these cases we absolutely need the data to process the contract, and without it we cannot ship the order. The data collected is evident from the respective input forms.

Further information on the processing of your data, in particular on the transfer to our service providers for the purpose of order, payment, and shipping processing, can be found in the following sections of this privacy policy. After the contract has been fully processed, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after expiry of the retention periods under tax and commercial law in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR, unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this policy.

2.2 CUSTOMER ACCOUNT

If you register in our online shop, we will create a password-protected account for you. If you have given your consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR by choosing to open a customer account, we will use your data for the purpose of opening a customer account and to save your data for future orders on our website. You can delete your customer account at any time and this can be done either by sending a message to the contact option described in this privacy policy or via a function provided for this purpose in your customer account. After your customer account has been deleted, your data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this policy.

2.3 DATA PROCESSING FOR CONTACTING US

If you contact us via our contact form, by email, or by phone, we will process the personal data you provide (e.g., name, email address, telephone number, content of your inquiry). This processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, provided the inquiry is related to the fulfillment of a contract or is necessary to implement pre-contractual measures. Otherwise, the processing is based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) in the effective processing of your inquiry.

2.4 CONTACT

We process personal data that you provide to us when you contact us in order to process and answer your inquiries.

3. DATA PROCESSING FOR THE PURPOSE OF SHIPPING

To ship orders from our online shop, certain personal data must be shared with shipping service providers. This data includes:

name

Delivery address

if applicable, telephone number (for delivery notifications or queries from the shipping service provider)

The transfer takes place exclusively for the purpose of carrying out the shipping service and is based on Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. The shipping companies commissioned by us are obligated to use your data exclusively for shipping purposes and to treat it in accordance with applicable data protection regulations.

Austrian Post Corporation
Corporate headquarters
Rochusplatz 1
1030 Vienna
Austria

DATA TRANSFER TO SHIPPING SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SHIPPING NOTIFICATION Your data may be passed on to shipping service providers to inform you about the delivery status of your order.

4. DATA PROCESSING FOR TRANSACTION PROCESSING AND SECURITY

When processing payments in our online shop, we work with these partners: technical service providers, credit institutions, payment service providers.

4.1 DATA PROCESSING FOR TRANSACTION PROCESSING

Depending on the selected payment method, we will pass on the data necessary for processing the payment transaction to our technical service providers, who work for us as part of a contract processing agreement, or to the commissioned credit institutions or to the selected payment service provider, insofar as this is necessary to process the payment. This serves the purpose of fulfilling the contract in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. In some cases, the payment service providers collect the data required for processing the payment themselves, e.g., on their own website or via a technical integration in the ordering process. The privacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies in this respect.
If you have any questions about our payment processing partners and the basis of our cooperation with them, please use the contact options described in this privacy policy.

On our website we offer payment by credit card (Mastercard), Klarna (SOFORT) and Apple Pay, among others.

The terms and conditions and privacy policy of the respective payment providers apply to payment transactions:

· Mastercard, Mastercard Representative Office Germany, Taunusanlage 9-10, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, HTTPS://WWW.MASTERCARD.DE/DE-DE/DATENSCHUTZ.HTML

· Klarna, a service of Klarna Bank AB (publ) with its head office at Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden HTTPS://WWW.KLARNA.COM/DE/DATENSCHUTZ/

Apple Pay, a service of Apple Distribution International (Apple), Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland SUPPORT.APPLE.COM/DE-DE/HT203027

We refer to the aforementioned payment providers for further information and to assert your rights of revocation, information and other data subject rights.

4.2 DATA PROCESSING FOR THE PURPOSE OF FRAUD PREVENTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF OUR PAYMENT PROCESSES

If necessary, we will provide our service providers with additional data, which they will use together with the data necessary for processing the payment as our processors for the purpose of fraud prevention and optimizing our payment processes (e.g., invoicing, processing disputed payments, accounting support). Pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, this serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in protecting ourselves against fraud and in efficient payment management, which prevail within the framework of a balancing of interests.

4.3 IDENTITY AND CREDIT CHECK WHEN SELECTING KLARNA PAYMENT SERVICES

Purchase on account via Klarna
If you decide to use the payment services of Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden (hereinafter Klarna), we ask for your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR that we may transmit the data necessary for processing the payment and for an identity and credit check to Klarna. In Germany, the credit agencies named in Klarna's PRIVACY POLICY may be used for the identity and credit check. Klarna uses the information received about the statistical probability of a payment default to make a balanced decision about the establishment, implementation or termination of the contractual relationship. You can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact option named in this privacy policy. This may mean that we can no longer offer you certain payment options. You can also revoke your consent to this use of personal data at any time, including by contacting Klarna.

5. ADVERTISING BY EMAIL, TELEPHONE

5.1 Email newsletter with registration and newsletter tracking

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you to regularly send you our email newsletter based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and can do so either by sending a message to the contact option described below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After unsubscribing, we will delete your email address from the recipient list unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this declaration.

Please note that we evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter. To do so, we also analyze your use of our newsletter by measuring, storing, and evaluating open rates and click rates for the purpose of designing future newsletter campaigns ("newsletter tracking").

For this evaluation, the emails sent contain single-pixel technologies (e.g., so-called web beacons, tracking pixels) stored on our website. For the evaluation, we link, in particular, the following "newsletter data"

  • the page from which the page was requested (so-called referrer URL),
  • the date and time of the call,
  • the description of the type of web browser used,
  • the IP address of the requesting computer,
  • the email address,
  • the date and time of registration and confirmation

and single-pixel technologies with your email address or IP address and, if applicable, a unique ID. Links contained in the newsletter may also contain this ID.

If you do not wish to be tracked by the newsletter, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time as described above.

The information will be stored as long as you are subscribed to the newsletter.

TELEPHONE ADVERTISING Telephone advertising will only take place with your express consent.

5.2 NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION

The newsletter and the newsletter tracking described above may also be sent by our service providers as part of processing on our behalf. If you have any questions about our service providers and the basis of our collaboration with them, please contact us using the contact options described in this privacy policy.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection: Canada

5.3 TELEPHONE ADVERTISING

If you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, we will use the data required for this purpose or separately provided by you for our own advertising purposes, e.g. to inform you about interesting offers and our products. You can revoke your consent at any time either by sending a message to the contact option described in this privacy policy or by a verbal notification with each call. After revocation, we will delete your telephone number unless you have expressly consented to further use of your data or we reserve the right to use the data in any other way that is permitted by law and about which we will inform you in this policy.

The advertising calls are carried out as part of processing on our behalf by our service providers, to whom we pass on your data for this purpose.

Our service providers are located and/or use servers in the following countries for which the European Commission has determined an adequate level of data protection: Canada

6. COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

GENERAL INFORMATION

To make visiting our website more attractive and enable the use of certain functions, we use technologies on various pages, including so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files that are automatically 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 allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit (persistent cookies).

PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ON END DEVICES


When you use our online services, we use technologies that are strictly necessary to provide the telemedia service you have expressly requested. Storing information on your device or accessing information already stored on your device does not require your consent.

For functions that are not absolutely necessary, the storage of information on your device or access to information already stored on your device requires your consent. Please note that if you do not grant your consent, parts of the website may not be fully usable. Your consent, if granted, will remain in effect until you adjust or reset the relevant settings on your device.

POSSIBLE DOWNSTREAM DATA PROCESSING THROUGH COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES


We use technologies that are absolutely necessary for the use of certain functions of our website (e.g., the shopping cart function). These technologies collect and process IP addresses, the time of visits, device and browser information, as well as information about your use of our website (e.g., information about the contents of your shopping cart). Within the framework of a balancing of interests, this serves the overriding legitimate interest in an optimized presentation of our offering in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

We also use technologies to fulfill the legal obligations to which we are subject (e.g., to be able to prove consent to the processing of your personal data), as well as for web analytics and online marketing. Further information on this, including the respective legal basis for data processing, can be found in the following sections of this privacy policy.

You can find the cookie settings for your browser under the following links: MICROSOFT EDGE™ / SAFARI™ / CHROME™ / FIREFOX™ / OPERA™

If you have consented to the use of the technologies in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, you can revoke your consent at any time by sending a message to the contact option described in the data protection declaration.

7. USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES FOR WEB ANALYSIS AND ADVERTISING PURPOSES

If you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, we use the following cookies and other third-party technologies on our website. Once the purpose no longer applies and we no longer use the respective technology, the data collected in this context will be deleted. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. Further information on your options for revoking your consent can be found in the "Cookies and other technologies" section. Further information, including the basis of our cooperation with the individual providers, can be found under the individual technologies. If you have any questions about the providers and the basis of our cooperation with them, please use the contact options described in this privacy policy.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

For the purpose of website analysis, Google Analytics automatically collects and stores data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information, as well as information about your use of our website). This data is used to create user profiles using pseudonyms. Cookies may be used for this purpose. Your IP address will not be merged with other Google data. Data processing is based on a contract processing agreement with Google.

GOOGLE RECAPTCHA

To protect against misuse of our web forms and spam by automated software (so-called bots), Google reCAPTCHA collects data (IP address, time of visit, browser information, and information about your use of our website) and uses JavaScript and cookies to analyze your use of our website. In addition, other cookies stored in your browser by Google services are evaluated. No personal data is read or saved from the input fields of the respective form.

8. SOCIAL MEDIA

OUR ONLINE PRESENCE ON INSTAGRAM (BY META), YOUTUBE, LINKEDIN

If you have given your consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR to the respective social media operator, when you visit our online presence on the social media mentioned above, your data will be automatically collected and stored for market research and advertising purposes, from which user profiles will be created using pseudonyms. These can be used, for example, to place advertisements within and outside the platforms that presumably correspond to your interests. Cookies are generally used for this purpose. Detailed information on the processing and use of data by the respective social media operator, as well as a contact option and your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy, can be found in the data protection information of the providers linked below. If you still need help in this regard, you can contact us.

INSTAGRAM (BY META) is an offering from Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Meta Platforms Ireland”). The information automatically collected by Meta Platforms Ireland about your use of our online presence on Instagram is generally transferred to a server of Meta Platforms, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA and stored there. There is no adequacy decision from the European Commission for the USA. Our cooperation with them is based on standard data protection clauses of the European Commission. Data processing when you visit an Instagram (by Meta) fan page is based on an agreement between joint controllers in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR. Further information (information on Insights data) can be found HERE .

YOUTUBE is a service provided by Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). The information automatically collected by Google about your use of our online presence on YouTube is generally transferred to a server of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, and stored there. The European Commission has not issued an adequacy decision for the USA. Our cooperation with them is based on standard data protection clauses of the European Commission.

9. CONTACT OPTIONS AND YOUR RIGHTS

9.1 YOUR RIGHTS

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

  • pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request information about your personal data processed by us to the extent specified therein;
  • pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR, you have the right to immediately request the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us;
  • According to Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless further processing
    • to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;
    • to fulfill a legal obligation;
    • for reasons of public interest or
    • is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
  • According to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as
    • you dispute the accuracy of the data;
    • the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure;
    • we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or
    • You have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
  • pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller;
  • Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or of our company headquarters.

RIGHT OF OBJECTION

If we process personal data as described above to protect our legitimate interests, which override ours in the context of a balancing of interests, you can object to this processing with effect for the future. If the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes, you can exercise this right at any time as described above. If the processing is carried out for other purposes, you only have the right to object if there are reasons arising from your particular situation.

After exercising your right of objection, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

This does not apply if the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes. In this case, we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose.

9.2 CONTACT OPTIONS RIGHT OF OBJECTION If you have any questions or concerns about data protection, please contact us using the contact details provided.

This privacy policy is currently valid and is dated [30.04.2025].