Data protection

We use so-called cookies on our website. A cookie is a small file with numbers and letters that is transferred from our web server to your computer's hard drive and stored there in the folder intended for cookies.

We use temporary cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our website (session cookies); these cookies expire at the end of the session; they are deleted at the latest when you close your web browser.
You can prevent the storage of cookies via the settings of your web browser software. Web browsers usually provide you with various functions for this purpose, which you can find out more about in the help of your web browser software. You can usually set this so that all cookies are automatically blocked or that only cookies from certain Internet offers are permitted or that you are warned before a cookie is saved. However, we would like to point out that blocking cookies from our website may, under certain circumstances, result in functional restrictions on the use of our website and that of other service providers.

For example, Internet Explorer 7.0 allows you to block cookies as follows: Click on the "Tools" button, then on "Internet Options" and then on the "Privacy" tab. Move the slider to the data protection level you want. If the data protection level “Block all cookies” is selected, all cookies are blocked from all websites; Cookies that are already on your computer cannot be read by websites. You can also set custom privacy settings for websites. For further information on blocking and deleting cookies, please refer to the help function of your web browser.

We receive, collect and store all information that you enter on our website or that you provide to us in any other way. In addition, we collect the IP address (Internet Protocol) that was used to connect your computer to the Internet; Sign up; E-mail address; Password; Computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including the time it takes to build a website (page response time) and the time visitors spend  stopping specific pages, page interaction information, and methods used to get the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email address, password, communication); Payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profiles.

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When you conduct a transaction on our website, we collect the personal data that you provide to us, such as your name, address and email address. Your personal data will only be used for the reasons mentioned above.

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We collect this non-personal and personal data for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services;

2. To provide ongoing customer service and technical support to our users;

3. To contact our visitors and users with general or personalized, service-related information and advertising messages;

4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and / or inferred non-personal information that we or our business partners can use to provide and improve our services;

5. To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

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Nicole Hof Art & Tattoo is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides me with the online platform through which I can sell my products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com's data store, databases, and general Wix.com applications. You save your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by my company conform to the standards of PCI-DSS, which are managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, a joint initiative of brands such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by my online shop and its service provider.

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We may contact you to notify you about your account, troubleshoot problems with your account, resolve a dispute, collect fees owed, provide your opinion through surveys or questionnaires, send updates about our company, or when it is necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws and any agreements we have with you. For these purposes, we can contact you by email, phone, SMS or post.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). 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 transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. 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 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. 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 the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be 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 downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on the following link.
An opt-out cookie is set which prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website

You can find more information on terms of use and data protection under the Google Analytics conditions or under the Google Analytics overview . We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been expanded to include the code "gat._anonymizeIp ();" has been expanded to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

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We use the reCAPTCHA service from Google Inc. (Google) to protect your orders via the Internet form. The query is used to differentiate whether the input is made by a person or improperly by automated, machine processing. The query includes the sending of the IP address and any other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. For this purpose, your input will be transmitted to Google and used there. However, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCaptcha will not be merged with other Google data. The different data protection provisions of Google apply to this data. You can find more information on Google's data protection guidelines at: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/
 

If you do not want us to process your data any further, please contact me at n.hof@gmx.de or send me a letter to: Nicole Hof Art & Tattoo, Nerlichsweg 5, 20535 Hamburg.

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We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time, so please review it regularly. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately after they are posted on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you of those changes here. This means that you know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may use and / or publish it.

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If you would like to see, correct, change or delete personal data that we have about you, you can contact me at n.hof@gmx.de or send me a letter to: Nicole Hof Art & Tattoo, Nerlichsweg 5, 20535 Hamburg .