Data protection

INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

Cult-Werk GmbH attaches great importance to protecting the privacy of each individual and the protection of personal data. In this privacy policy, you will learn how and for what purpose we process personal data. We also inform you about your rights as a data subject.

RESPONSIBLE

Cult-Werk GmbH, Mühlweg 38, 4160 Aigen-Schlägl, office@cult-werk.com

PROCESSING PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASES OF PROCESSING

To process your purchase in the Cult-Werk store and for all related activities (e.g.: sending products or information letters) and correspondence, your data will be processed for the fulfillment of this contract.

RECIPIENT OF THE DATA

For the creation of personalized letters, we will pass on your name and delivery address to a print shop. For the delivery of necessary documents, your name and delivery address will be transmitted to the respective delivery service provider. 
For secure payment processing during online registration, an anonymized transaction ID and details of the financing and payment terms (e.g. price, VAT rate) are transmitted to the external Strip, Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.

If you are entitled to a refund, we will process your account details exclusively for this purpose and forward them to the bank holding your account. 
As these orders involve payment of a fee and we are therefore obliged to issue invoices, your data will be transmitted to the following parties:
Responsible administrative authorities, in particular the Federal Tax Office 
“Statistics Austria” for the preparation of the (official) statistics required by law 
Public accountants and other bodies whose control the company is subject to 
Legal representation, debt collection agency and courts, insofar as this is necessary for legal defense or legal enforcement


DURATION OF DATA STORAGE

The data is stored for as long as required by statutory retention periods, such as tax law or company law.

Cult-Werk GmbH AS RESPONSIBLE PARTY

uses the following processors:

  • Stripe, Inc., San Francisco, Vereinigte Staaten
  • PayPal Holdings, Inc., San Jose, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten
  • Shopware AG, Ebbinghof 10, 48624 Schöppingen, Deutschland

USE OF COOKIES

In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small text files that are stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted again at the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS FOR WEB ANALYSIS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (www.google.de). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and that enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. IP anonymization is active on this website. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install.


USE OF FACEBOOK, GOOGLE+, TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM PLUGINS

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) from the social networks Facebook and Google+, the microblogging services Twitter and Instagram. These services are offered by the companies Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Twitter Inc and Instagram LLC (“providers”).

  • Facebook is operated by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). An overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance can be found here:Facebook for developers
  • Google+ is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). An overview of the Google plugins and their appearance can be found here:Google developers
  • Twitter is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. An overview of the Twitter buttons and their appearance can be found here: Twitter buttons
  • Instagram is operated by Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”). An overview of the Instagram buttons and their appearance can be found here: Instagram badges


When you access a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Facebook, Google, Twitter 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 the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to one of the services, the providers can directly associate your visit to our website with your profile on Facebook, Google+, Twitter or Instagram. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the “Like”, “+1”, “Tweet” or “Instagram” button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information is also published on the social network, on your Twitter or Instagram account and displayed there to your contacts.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers as well as your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in the providers' data protection notices.


If you do not want Google, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram to assign the data collected via our website directly to your profile in the respective service, you must log out of the respective service before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the plugins from loading with add-ons for your browser, e.g. with the script blocker “NoScript”.

RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA

In principle, the data subject has the right to information, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection. If the data subject believes that the processing of the data violates data protection law or that their data protection rights have been violated in any other way, they can lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the data protection authority.