This English version is provided as a convenience translation. The German Privacy Policy, which is automatically maintained by IT-Recht Kanzlei, remains authoritative.

1) Introduction 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 how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data means 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 Veronica Gandola, Onlinehandel & Dienstleistungen Gandola, Hauptstraße 61, 94146 Herzogsreut, Germany, telephone: +49 176 80058038, email: gandola.veronica@gandolaev.eu. The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2) Data collected when visiting our website

2.1 When you use our website solely for informational purposes, meaning that you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we collect only the data that your browser transmits to the website server (“server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary to display the website:

• The page of our website visited
• Date and time of access
• Amount of data transferred in bytes
• Source or referring page from which you reached the site
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used, where applicable in anonymised form

Processing is carried out pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not disclosed or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files retrospectively if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content, such as orders or enquiries sent to the controller, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser address bar.

3) Hosting and content delivery network

For hosting our website and displaying its content, we use a provider that delivers its services, either itself or through selected subcontractors, exclusively on servers located within the European Union.

All data collected on our website is processed on these servers.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

4) Cookies

To make our website attractive and enable certain functions, we use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device. Some cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser (“session cookies”), while others remain on your device for longer and enable website settings to be stored (“persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage period in your browser’s cookie settings overview.

Where personal data is processed through individual cookies used by us, processing is carried out pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR for the performance of a contract, pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR where consent has been given, or pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a user-friendly and effective website experience.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set and decide individually whether to accept them, or to exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally.

Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

5) Contacting us

Personal data is collected when you contact us, for example by contact form or email. If a contact form is used, the data collected is shown in the respective form. This data is stored and used exclusively to respond to your request, to contact you and for the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest in responding to your request pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at entering into a contract, Article 6(1)(b) GDPR is an additional legal basis. Your data will be deleted once your request has been conclusively dealt with, provided that no statutory retention obligations prevent deletion.

6) Online marketing

6.1 Google AdSense

This website uses Google AdSense, an online advertising service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”). Google AdSense uses cookies, meaning text files stored on your device that enable an analysis of your use of the website. Google AdSense also uses web beacons, small invisible graphics, to record, collect and evaluate basic actions such as website traffic. Information generated by the cookie and/or web beacon about your use of this website, including your IP address, is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server. Data may also be transferred to servers of Google LLC in the United States.

Google uses the information obtained to evaluate your usage behaviour in relation to AdSense advertisements. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google AdSense is not combined with other Google data. Information collected by Google may be transferred to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

All processing described above, particularly reading information from your device using cookies and/or web beacons, takes place only if you have given us your express consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Without consent, Google AdSense will not be used during your visit.

You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by disabling this service in the cookie consent tool provided on the website.

For transfers of data to the United States, the provider participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which is based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission and ensures compliance with the European level of data protection.

Further information about Google’s privacy provisions is available at https://business.safety.google/intl/en/privacy/ and https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

6.2 AWIN Performance Advertising Network Affiliate

We participate in the affiliate programme of AWIN AG, Eichhornstraße 3, 10785 Berlin, Germany.

In this context, our website contains links to offers on websites operated by the provider or by third parties (“partner sites”).

To measure the success of affiliate links, evaluate orders generated through such links and calculate commission payments, the provider uses cookies and/or comparable technologies. These are generally set on the partner sites, for which we are not responsible under data protection law. The provider regularly processes the IP address and, where applicable, other device information.

All processing described above, particularly reading or storing information on your device, takes place only if you have given your express consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by using the cookie consent management options on the partner sites.

7) Web analytics services

Google Analytics 4

This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”), which enables an analysis of your use of our website.

By default, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies when you visit the website. These small text files are stored on your device and collect certain information. This information includes your IP address, although Google shortens its final digits to exclude direct personal identification.

The information is transmitted to and processed on Google servers. Transfers to Google LLC in the United States are also possible.

Google uses the information collected on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide us with other services relating to website and internet use. The shortened IP address transmitted by your browser through Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data. Data collected through Google Analytics 4 is retained for two months and then deleted.

All processing described above, particularly the placing of cookies on your device, takes place only if you have given your express consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Without your consent, Google Analytics 4 will not be used during your visit. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by disabling this service through the cookie consent tool provided on the website.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

Further legal information about Google Analytics 4 is available at https://business.safety.google/intl/en/privacy/, https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Demographic features

Google Analytics 4 uses a special demographic features function to create statistics relating to the age, gender and interests of website visitors. This is based on the analysis of advertising and information from third-party providers and can be used to identify audiences for marketing activities. The data collected cannot be assigned to a specific person and is deleted after being stored for two months.

Google Signals

As an extension of Google Analytics 4, Google Signals may be used on this website to produce cross-device reports. If you have enabled personalised advertisements and linked your devices to your Google account, Google may, subject to your consent to Google Analytics pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, analyse your usage behaviour across devices and create database models, including models for cross-device conversions. We do not receive personal data from Google, only statistics. To stop cross-device analysis, you can disable personalised advertising in your Google account settings. Instructions are available at https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155764?hl=en. Further information about Google Signals is available at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en.

User IDs

As an extension of Google Analytics 4, the User IDs function may be used on this website. If you have consented to the use of Google Analytics 4 pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, created an account on this website and log in to that account on different devices, your activities, including conversions, may be analysed across devices.

For transfers of data to the United States, the provider participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which is based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission and ensures compliance with the European level of data protection.

8) Tools and miscellaneous

Cookie consent tool

This website uses a cookie consent tool to obtain valid user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The tool is displayed to users when they access the website in the form of an interactive interface through which consent can be given for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications. All cookies and services requiring consent are loaded only after the respective user has given consent. This ensures that such cookies are placed on the user’s device only where consent has been provided.

The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. As a general rule, personal user data is not processed.

If personal data such as an IP address is processed in individual cases for the purpose of storing, assigning or documenting cookie settings, processing takes place pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly cookie consent management and therefore in the legally compliant operation of our website.

A further legal basis is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. As the controller, we are legally obliged to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user’s consent.

Where necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorised disclosure to third parties.

Further information about the operator and the settings available in the cookie consent tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

9) Rights of the data subject

9.1 Applicable data protection law grants you the following rights against the controller in relation to the processing of your personal data. The legal basis listed applies to the respective conditions for exercising each right:

• Right of access pursuant to Article 15 GDPR;
• Right to rectification pursuant to Article 16 GDPR;
• Right to erasure pursuant to Article 17 GDPR;
• Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Article 18 GDPR;
• Right to notification pursuant to Article 19 GDPR;
• Right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 GDPR;
• Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Article 7(3) GDPR;
• Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Article 77 GDPR.

9.2 Right to object

WHERE WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST FOLLOWING A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO SUCH PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE MAY CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.

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

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

10) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration for which personal data is stored is determined by the applicable legal basis, the purpose of processing and, where applicable, the relevant statutory retention period, such as retention periods under commercial and tax law.

Where personal data is processed on the basis of express consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you withdraw your consent.

Where statutory retention periods apply to data processed in connection with legal or similar obligations on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, the data will be routinely deleted after those periods expire, provided that it is no longer required for the performance or initiation of a contract and that we no longer have a legitimate interest in continued storage.

Where personal data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, the data will be stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or unless the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, the data will be stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(2) GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy in relation to specific processing situations, stored personal data will be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

Last updated: 14 August 2026