Visiting our website may be anonymous in some cases. However, if you opt-in, personal information will be processed in accordance with our privacy policy. We are currently working on a login option that will be available in the future. Please note that information in the shopping cart can expire after the visit (session) unless you are logged in and have saved it.
If you register for our newsletter, we will use the data required for this or separately provided by you in order to send you our e-mail newsletter on a regular basis. When you register for our newsletter, you will receive a confirmation email. Unsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the contact option below or via a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter.
The data that we request from unregistered users during the ordering process (name, address) is used exclusively to process this specific ordering process and is only used for this purpose. Storage only takes place within the framework of invoicing and to document this process for the tax office. If you do not register, we will only record the email address used when purchasing an e-book or a digitized article and the country of origin required by tax law.
We process and store your data for the duration of our business relationship. This also includes the initiation of a contract (pre-contractual legal relationship) and the execution of a contract. In addition, we are subject to various storage and documentation obligations, which e.g. from the German Commercial Code (HGB) and the Tax Code (AO). The storage and documentation periods specified there are up to ten years after the end of the business relationship or the pre-contractual legal relationship. If the data is no longer required to fulfill contractual or legal obligations and rights, it is regularly deleted.
Resale or subletting of addresses will not take place under any circumstances. Only the order data will be passed on to the payment service providers mentioned in the next point and the delivery addresses to the transport companies commissioned.
To pay for your order, we use paypal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. as a technical payment service provider. In this context, we pass on your data to the service providers mentioned. Your credit card or bank details will only be used and stored there.
The transmission of personal data and orders is encrypted.
Cookies are only used temporarily for the course of a session in order to identify the user anonymously and, for example, to be able to allocate the contents of the shopping cart. No personal data is stored via cookies.
This website does not use Google Analytics or Google Remarketing.
We process personal data in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and other applicable data protection regulations.
Metropolis publishing house for economy, society and politics GmbH
Am Graben 2b
35096 Weimar
Telephone +49(0)6421 / 67377
Email address info@metropolis-verlag.de
Our data protection declaration and the information on data protection regarding our data processing in accordance with Article (Art.) 13, 14 and 21 GDPR may change from time to time. We will publish all changes on this page. Older versions are archived and can be made available for inspection upon request.
Privacy Policy
Effective May 25, 2018