Privacy

We are pleased about your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. In the following we will inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

Inquiry, processing and usage of your data

In all respects of data processing (e.g. collection, processing, transmission) we act in accordance with the respective legal regulations. Your personal details necessary for processing the transaction will be stored and passed to service providers instructed by us to the extent necessary to process your order. Address and order-related data is collected and processed for our own marketing purposes.
Data will be forwarded solely for third party marketing purposes in such a form as permitted by law (general public data and data summarized in lists according to § 28 Section 3 No. 3 f.f. and § 47 No. 2 f.f. of the German Federal Data Protection Act and according to § 28 Section 3 p. 2 and p. 4 f.f. of the German Federal Data Protection Act.
You can stop the use, processing and exchange of your personal information for marketing purposes by sending an informal letter by mail to Historia Verlag, Karlsruher Str. 52, D-79108 Freiburg, or by sending an e-mail to info@historia.net . This is, however, not applicable to the data required for the processing of your order. After receiving your objection, we will no longer use, process or share the data in question for any other purpose than to process your order, and we will not send you any further marketing material. Due to commercial and tax provisions, we are still obliged to retain your Customer Data and submit them to the competent authorities if necessary. Your data may only be deleted after the legal period for retaining them has elapsed.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies on different sites to make your visit to our website attractive and enable the usage of certain functions. They are small text files which are deposited on your computer. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your harddisk when you end your browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognise your computer at your next visit (so-called permanent cookies). These cookies serve the purpose of welcoming you with your username and spare you from re-entering your password or filling in forms with your data in the case of follow-up orders. Our partner businesses are not allowed to inquire, process or use personal data via cookies through our website.

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 (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) and its processing by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in provided under this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Use of Facebook Social Plugins

On our websites we integrated plugins of the social media network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You can recognize the Facebook-plugins by the Facebook-Logo or the “Like-Button” on our page. You can find an overview over the Facebook-Plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins. When you are visiting our page, the plugin sets up a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook-server. Thereby Facebook gets the information, that you have visited our page with your IP address. If you use the Facebook “Like-Button” while you are logged-in in your Facebook-account, you can link contents of our website to your Facebook-profile. Thereby Facebook can allot the visit on our website to your user account. We point out, that we as the operator of the website do not get any knowledge of the content of the transferred data and their use by Facebook. You can find more information concerning this topic in the privacy statement of Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Data security

During the ordering process your personal data is sent over the internet in encrypted form. Credit card data is not saved, being instead collected and processed directly by our payment processor Banque Populaire d'Alsace. Using technical and organisational measures, we secure our website and other systems against the loss, destruction, access, alteration or processing of your data by unauthorised persons. You should always keep your login information confidential and close the browser window when you have ended your communication with us, especially when you are sharing the computer with other people.

Right of access

According to the German Federal Data Security Law you have the right to free access to your stored data as well as, if the case be, the right to the correction, blocking or deletion of these data.

Withdrawal of agreements

During the course of the ordering process you may have granted the following agreements explicitly. We would like to inform you that you can withdraw your agreement an any time with effect for the future.

Authorisation for Email marketing
Yes, I would like to subscribe to the free Historia newsletter and in future receive information every 14 days about benefits, offers and voucher programmes. Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link at the end of the newsletter.