Data collection and use for processing contracts and opening customer accounts

We collect personal data when you voluntarily disclose it to us when placing an order, when contacting us (e.g. using the contact form or e-mail) or when opening a customer account. The data being collected can be seen on the relevant input forms. We use the data you provide to process contracts and handle your enquiries. Once the contract has been fully processed or your customer account has been deleted, your data are blocked for any further use and, upon expiry of the mandatory retention periods under tax and commercial law, they are deleted, insofar as you have not given your express consent for your data to be used for another purpose. We may also reserve the right to make further use of the data as permitted by law. Further details of such use are provided below. You can delete your customer account at any time by sending a message to one of the contacts listed below.

 
Third-party hosting services

Data are also processed by a third-party provider that we have engaged to render hosting and website presentation services on our behalf. This provider processes on its servers all data that are collected in the manner specified below when you visit our website or fill in forms made available for this purpose in our online shop. Data are processed on other servers only in the scope described herein.

This service provider is based in an EU or EEA member state.

 
Data collection and processing with PayPal payments

The collection, processing and use of the data required are carried out in accordance with PayPal’s terms and conditions.

 
Use of data when subscribing to the e-mail newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will regularly send you our e-mail newsletter based on your consent, using the data required or disclosed by you separately for this purpose.

You may unsubscribe from the newsletter service at any time. For this purpose you can either send a message to the contact option specified below or use the opt-out link in the newsletter. Upon unsubscription, we will delete your email address unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data or we reserve the right to further use your personal data in the scope and manner permitted by the law, of which we inform you in this notice.

Our newsletter is sent via the provider Mailchimp. Your e-mail address, your name (if you provide your name) and the use of the newsletter will be stored by Mailchimp in the USA (for further information we refer to the privacy policy of Mailchimp). Mailchimp is currently certified according to the Privacy Shield.

 
Product recommendations by e-mail 

As a customer of LIMA BEACHWEAR GmbH, you will receive regular product recommendations by e-mail. You will receive these product recommendations irrespective of whether you have subscribed to our newsletter. In this way we aim to send you information on products from our range that may be of interest to you based on your recent purchases. In so doing, we adhere strictly to the statutory regulations. Should you no longer wish to receive product recommendations or any promotional messages, you can request to stop receiving them at any time without incurring costs other than the basic cost of transmitting the message. An e-mail to info@limabeachwear.com or to the contacts listed below (e.g. e-mail, fax, letter) is sufficient. You will of course also find an unsubscribe link in every e-mail.

 
E-mail advertising if you do not subscribe to the newsletter and your right to opt out

If we receive your e-mail address in connection with the sale of a product or service and you have not opted out, we reserve the right to regularly email you offers for products from our product range that are similar to those you have already purchased. This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in promoting and advertising our products to customers that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests.

You can opt out of this use of your email address at any time by sending a message to the contact option specified below or by using the opt-out link in the advertising email, without incurring any costs beyond the cost of transfer calculated at the base rates.

The newsletter is sent to you by our service provider who processes data on our behalf and to whom we disclose your email address.

This service provider is based in the USA and is certified to the EU-US Privacy Shield. The current certificate can be looked up here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has recognised entities certified to the Privacy Shield as those ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

 
Data security

Your personal details are transmitted over the Internet in encrypted form using an SSL certificate during the order process. Credit card details are not stored, but are collected and processed directly by our payment service provider, Saferpay. We employ technical and organisational measures to safeguard our website and other systems from loss, damage, illegal access and alteration or transmission of your data by unauthorised persons. You can only access your customer account once you have entered your personal password. You should always treat your payment information as confidential and close the browser window when you have finished communicating with us, particularly if you use a shared computer.

 

Cookies and web-analysis

To improve the user experience on our website and enable you to use its certain features in order to show suitable products or conduct market research, some pages of this website use the so-called cookies. This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in the optimised presentation of our offer that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. A cookie is a small text file which is stored automatically on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted after you close the browser session, i.e. when you close the browser (that’s the so-called session cookies). Other cookies are stored in your end-user device and enable us to recognise your browser when you visit us again (persistent cookies). To check the cookie storage period, you can use the Overview function in the cookie settings of your web browser. You can configure your browser for it to inform you whenever a page uses cookies and decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept or reject the cookies on a given website or generally. Every browser has a different policy for managing the cookie settings. The browser’s policy is described in the Help menu of every browser and explains how you can change your cookie settings. To find out how to change the settings in your browser, see the links below:

Internet Explorer™: http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE

Chrome™: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647

Firefox™ https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html

Please note that disabling cookies may limit your access to some features of our website.

 
Using of Google (Universal) Analytics for web analytics

For the purpose of website analytics, this website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (www.google.com). This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in the optimised presentation of our offer that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods, like e.g. cookies, that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information collected automatically by cookies about your use of this website are as a rule transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. At the same time, as IP anonymisation is enabled on this website, the IP address will be shortened before being transmitted within the area of member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address will be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Generally, Google does not associate the anonymised IP address, transmitted from your browser through Google Analytics, with any other data held by Google.

Google LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified to the EU-US-Privacy Shield. You will see the up-to-date certificate here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has recognised entities certified to the Privacy Shield as those ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

You may prevent the data generated by cookies and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being recorded and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available through the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

 
Advertisement for marketing purposes

Google AdWords remarketing

We use Google AdWords to advertise our website in Google search results and on third-party websites. For this purpose, when you visit our website, the so-called remarketing cookie of Google is set on your browser, which allows the automatic displaying of interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous cookie ID and information about your website visits. This serves the protection of our legitimate interests in the optimal marketing of our website that are overriding in the process of balancing of interests.

Any data processing that goes beyond that scope takes place only if you have allowed Google to associate your web and app browsing history with your Google account and to use information from your Google account to personalise ads that you see across the web. If, in such a case, you visit our website while being signed in to Google, Google will use your data together with Google Analytics data to build and define audience lists for cross-device remarketing. For this purpose, Google will temporarily join your data with Google Analytics data to build audiences.

Google AdWords remarketing is offered by Google LLC (www.google.com). Die Google LLC is headquartered in the USA und and is certified to the EU-US-Privacy Shield. You will see the up-to-date certificate here [link to: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list]. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has recognised entities certified to the Privacy Shield as those ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

 
Facebook Re-Marketing

We use Facebook to advertise our website in Google search results and on third-party websites. As far as you have given your consent according to art. 6 (1) 1 lit a GDPR for every visit of the website the so-called remarketing cookie of Facebook is set by Facebook, which allows the automatic displaying of interest-based advertising using a pseudonymous cookie ID and information about your website visits. After the purpose of use has ceased to exist and the use of Facebook Remarketing has ended from our side, the data collected in this context will be deleted.

Any data processing that goes beyond that scope takes place only if you have allowed Facebook to associate your web and app browsing history with your Facebook account and to use information from your Facebook account to personalise ads that you see across the web. If, in such a case, you visit our website while being signed in to Facebook, Facebook will use your data to build and define audience lists for cross-device remarketing.

Facebook remarketing is offered by Facebook (www.facebook.com). Facebook is headquartered in the USA und and is certified to the EU-US-Privacy Shield. You will see the up-to-date certificate here. Based on this agreement between the USA and the European Commission, the latter has recognised entities certified to the Privacy Shield as those ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

 
Social media plugins

Using of social network plugins of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest

Our website uses so-called social network plugins (“plugins”).

If you call a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser will establish a direct link to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter or Instagram. Then, the content of the plugin will be transferred by the relevant provider directly to your browser and integrated within the page you are viewing. This allows the providers to obtain information that you viewed the page of our website in your browser, also if you do not have an account with the relevant provider or are currently not signed in. This information (including your IP address) will be sent from your browser directly to the relevant provider’s server (which may be in the USA) and stored there. If you have signed in to your social network account, the providers will be able to directly attribute your visit to our website to your social network account. If you interact with the plugins, e.g. click the 'Like' or 'Share' button, this information will be also sent directly to the provider’s server and stored there. In addition, the information will be published on the social network page and your contacts will be able to see it.

To find out more about the purpose and scope of collection, further processing and use of the data by the Providers, and to learn about the available contact options and your rights in this respect and how you can customise your browser to better protect your privacy, please see the data privacy policies of the providers:

http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

https://twitter.com/privacy

https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

If you do not want the social networks to attribute the data collected through our website directly to your social network account, you must sign out of the relevant account before visiting our website. You may also use add-ons for your browser, e.g. the "NoScript" script blocker (http://noscript.net/), to stop plugins.

 
Youtube video plugins

We have embedded third-party content on our website. This content is made available by Google LLC ("Provider").

Youtube is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (”Google”).

In respect of Youtube videos which are embedded in our website, we have enabled the privacy enhanced mode. This means that Youtube does not collect or store information about visitors unless they play the video.

To find out more about the purpose and scope of collection, further processing and use of the data by the Providers, and to learn about your rights in this respect and how you can customise your browser to better protect your privacy, please see the data privacy policies of Google.

 
Intellectual property

Text, images, videos, software, products, services and other information contained in or presented on the Website may not be amended, copied, presented, licensed, published, uploaded, sent or made perceptible in any other way without the prior written consent of Lima Beachwear or the right owner in question. This excludes the User's right of use for his/her own personal use, adhering to all copyrights and other proprietary rights.