Data protection

We appreciate your visit to our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our site can be used without providing any personal data. However, there may be different regulations for the use of individual services on our site, which are explained separately below in this case. Your personal data (e.g. name, address, e-mail, telephone number, etc.) will be processed by us in accordance with the provisions of Art. 6 (1) Para. 1 of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Data is personal if it can be clearly assigned to a specific natural person. The legal basis of data protection can be found in the GDPR and additionally in the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG 2018). Unless otherwise stated in the following information, we only store the data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purpose of processing or to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations. The following regulations inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, use and processing of personal data by the provider

• Name: HMS-guitars, Christian Lindblad
• AddressKoivuniementie 26, 00890, Helsinki, Finland
• Phone: +358 41 46 16 815
• E-mail: info@hms-guitars.fi

We would like to point out that Internet-based data transmission has security gaps, which means that complete protection against access by third parties is impossible.

Cookies (momentarily disabled)

We use so-called cookies on our site to recognize repeated use of our offer by the same user/internet connection owner. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores and saves on your computer. They are used to optimize our website and our offers in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. These are mostly so-called "session cookies", which are deleted after the end of your visit. In some cases, however, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you. This recognition is based on the IP address stored in the cookies. The information obtained in this way is used to optimize our offers and to enable you to access our site more easily. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you can if applicable not use all functions of our website in full.

Data transfer

Insofar as this is necessary to fulfill the contract, we will pass on your data to third parties in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. Depending on which payment service provider you select in the ordering process, we will pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with the payment and, if applicable, to the payment service provider commissioned by us in order to process payments.

Server data

For technical reasons, the following data, which your Internet browser transmits to us or to our web space provider and is recorded (so-called server log files):

• Browser type and version
• operating system used
• website from which you are visiting us (referrer URL)
• website accessed
• date and time of your access '* your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

The processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interests and is based on Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR. This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data you may have provided and does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about a specific person. They are evaluated for statistical purposes in order to be able to optimize our website and our offers. The stored data will be deleted after a maximum of seven days, unless there is a justified suspicion of illegal use based on specific indications and further examination and processing of the information is necessary for this reason.

Newsletter (momentarily disabled)

On our site we offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. Based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a GDPR, we will use this newsletter to inform you about our offers at regular intervals. In order to receive our newsletter, you need a valid e-mail address. We will check the e-mail address you have entered to ensure that you are actually the owner of the e-mail address provided or that the owner is authorized to receive the newsletter. When you register for our newsletter, we will save your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This serves to protect us in the event that a third party misuses your e-mail address and subscribes to our newsletter without your knowledge. We do not collect any further data. The data collected in this way is used exclusively for subscribing to our newsletter. A transfer to third parties does not take place. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site does not take place either. You can cancel your subscription to this newsletter at any time. Details on this can be found in the confirmation email and in each individual newsletter.

Contact option

On our site we offer you the opportunity to contact us by e-mail and/or via a contact form. In this case, the information provided by the user will be stored for the purpose of processing his contact. A transfer to third parties does not take place. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site does not take place either.

Comment option (momentarily disabled)

On our site we offer you the opportunity to leave comments on the individual contributions. The IP address of the author/connector is saved here. This is stored for our security in the event that the author infringes the rights of third parties through his comment and/or unlawful content is posted. We therefore have a personal interest in the author's stored data, especially since we may be prosecuted for such violations of the law. A transfer to third parties does not take place. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site does not take place either.

Use of social media plugins (momentarily disabled)

Plugins from social networks, in particular from Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram, are used on our website. When you visit our website, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated into the page. By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the information that your browser has accessed our website. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider.

Use of Google Analytics with anonymization function

If you have given your consent to this in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter “Google " a. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and thus enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, place and frequency of your website visit, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there. We use Google Analytics with the addition "_gat._anonymizeIp" on our website. In this case, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thereby made anonymous. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our site, to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if required to do so by law or if third parties process this data on Google's behalf. According to their own statements, Google will under no circumstances associate your IP address with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you can if applicable not use all functions of our website in full. Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation add-on for the most common browsers, which gives you more control over what data Google collects about the websites you visit. The add-on tells the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) that no information about the website visit should be sent to Google Analytics. However, the deactivation add-on for browsers from Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may use. Further information on installing the browser add-on is available via the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=deEinsatz von Google+-

Recommendation Components

We use the "+1" button from the provider Google+ from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as "Google" on our website. Each time you visit our website, which is equipped with such a "+1" component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the Google component. This process informs Google which specific page of our website is currently being visited. According to the information provided by Google, your visit will not be evaluated further if you are not logged into your Google account. If you visit our site and are logged in to Google at the same time, Google can collect information about your Google account, the website you recommend, your IP address and other browser-related information when you confirm the "+1" button. In this way, your "+1" recommendation can be saved and made publicly accessible. The Google "+1" recommendation you have given can then be used as a reference together with your account name and, if applicable, with your photo stored on Google in Google services, such as in search results or in your Google account or in other places, such as on websites and advertisements on the Internet. Furthermore, Google can link your visit to our site with your data stored by Google. Google also records this information in order to further improve Google services. If you therefore want to prevent the aforementioned collection by Google as best as possible, you must log out of your Google account before visiting our website. You can access Google's data protection information on the "+1" button with all further information on the collection, transfer and use of data by Google, your rights in this regard and your profile setting options here: https://developers.google.com/+ /web/buttons-policy

Use of Google Adwords

We also use the Google advertising tool "Google-Adwords" to advertise our website. As part of this, we use the "Conversion Tracking" analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as "Google" on our website. If you have reached our website via a Google ad, a cookie will be stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your Internet browser stores and saves on your computer. These so-called "conversion cookies" lose their validity after 30 days and are not used to identify you personally. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that you, as a user, have clicked on one of our ads placed with Google and have been forwarded to our site. The information obtained with the help of the "conversion cookies" is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These statistics tell us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and which pages of our website were subsequently accessed by the respective user. However, we or other advertisers via "Google Adwords" do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified. You can prevent the installation of "conversion cookies" by setting your browser accordingly, for example by using a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies or specifically only blocks cookies from the "googleadservices.com" domain. The relevant data protection declaration from Google can be found under the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html

Use of Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense on our website. Google AdSense is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, for the integration of advertisements. Google AdSense uses so-called "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of the use of our website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons. These web beacons enable Google to evaluate information such as the flow of visitors to our site. This information is used in addition to your IP address and the collection of the displayed advertising formats to Google in the USA, stored there and can be passed on by Google to contractual partners. However, Google will not merge your IP address with other data stored by you. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you can if applicable not use all functions of our website in full. By using our website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Information/revocation/deletion

According to Art. 15 GDPR, you can contact us free of charge if you have questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data and their correction (Art. 16 GDPR), blocking, deletion (Art. 17 GDPR) or a revocation of a given consent. We would like to point out that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or personal data deleted if there is no legal obligation to retain it.