Privacy

Who is responsible

[Name and address of the controller, same as in the imprint]

Email for privacy questions: [privacy@lightbulbgru.com]

[Name and contact of a data protection officer, if one is required]

Hosting and server logs

The site is hosted by [hosting provider, company, country].

The server stores a log of each request: IP address, date and time, page requested, browser type. [Retention period, e.g. 7 days].

[Legal basis wording, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, legitimate interest in a secure and working site]

[Data processing agreement with the hosting provider: yes / no]

Cookies and local storage

We set no tracking or advertising cookies and use no analytics service.

Your cart is saved in your browser, on your device only. It is not sent to us. It disappears when you clear your browser data.

[Any strictly necessary cookies set at checkout by the payment or shop provider, with names and lifetimes]

Because we only use what is technically necessary, no cookie banner is shown. [Lawyer to confirm this assessment]

Orders, shipping and payment

When you order, we process: name, delivery address, email address, [phone number, if collected], the items ordered and the payment method chosen.

We pass the delivery address to the carrier [DHL Paket GmbH] to deliver the parcel. [Whether the email or phone number is shared with the carrier for delivery notices]

Payment is handled by [list of payment providers, e.g. PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A.; Stripe Payments Europe Ltd.; Klarna Bank AB for invoice]. Your card or account details go directly to them; we do not see or store them.

[Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, performance of the contract]

We keep order data for [10 years] because tax law requires it (§ 147 AO, § 14b UStG).

[If checkout runs on an external shop platform such as Shopify or Stripe Checkout, name it and link its privacy policy]

YouTube videos

Videos on this site are shown as a still image first. Nothing from YouTube is loaded until you press play.

When you press play, the video loads from youtube-nocookie.com, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google then receives your IP address and can set cookies on its domain.

[Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, consent given by pressing play; how to withdraw it]

[Link to Google's privacy policy and note on transfers to the USA under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework]

Amazon links

Products marked "Ad" link to Amazon.de. We take part in the Amazon PartnerNet (Amazon Associates) programme and earn a commission on qualifying purchases. The price for you does not change.

When you click such a link, Amazon receives the request and sets its own cookies on the Amazon site to attribute the purchase. We receive no personal data about you from Amazon, only aggregated statistics.

[Amazon Europe Core S.à r.l. address and link to Amazon's privacy notice]

[Legal basis wording for outgoing affiliate links]

When you write to us

If you send us an email or use the contact form, we keep the message and your contact details to answer you.

Messages are deleted after [retention period, e.g. 12 months after the matter is closed], unless they belong to an order.

[Where the mailbox is hosted and whether that provider is a processor]

Your rights

You have the right to ask what data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to limit how we use it, to receive it in a portable format, and to object to processing based on our legitimate interest.

If you gave consent (for example by pressing play on a video), you can withdraw it at any time.

You can complain to a data protection authority. The one responsible for us is [name and address of the competent supervisory authority].

To use any of these rights, write to [privacy@lightbulbgru.com].

Changes to this policy

This version is dated [Date]. We update it when the site or the law changes.