Privacy policy

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, it shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By means of this data protection declaration, we would like to inform you of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect and how we use it. Furthermore, we want to inform you of the rights to which you are legally entitled.

What we collect

Information is collected only when you give it to us voluntarily by entering it yourself. We do not place cookies on your computer or track your actions (with the exception of the embedded SoundCloud player which places cookies when you listen to audio). We may collect the following information only:

• your name
• your email address
• your postal address

Who we share your data with

No one. We never give out, rent, lease, or sell your personal information to anyone.

Subscription to our newsletter

On the website of root-sounds, users are given the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. The input mask used for this purpose collects your name and email address.

root-sounds informs its customers occasionally by means of a newsletter about special offers or new releases. The newsletter may only be received if (1) you entered a valid e-mail address and (2) you subscribe to the newsletter. The personal data collected as part of a registration for the newsletter will only be used to send our newsletter. There will be no transfer of personal data collected by the newsletter service to third parties. The subscription to our newsletter may be terminated by you at any time. The consent to the storage of personal data, which you have given for shipping the newsletter, may be revoked at any time. For the purpose of revocation of consent, a corresponding link is found in each newsletter.

Your rights

• Right of confirmation

  You shall have the right to obtain from us the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed.

• Right of access

  You shall have the right to obtain from us information about your personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information. Furthermore, the European directives and regulations grant you access to the following information:

  • the purposes of the processing;
  • the categories of personal data concerned;
  • the existence of the right to request from us rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing of personal data concerning you, or to object to such processing;
  • further rights that are not appliccable to the way we use your data, because we do not share your data with anyone.

• Right to rectification

  You shall have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

• Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

  You shall have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data without undue delay, and we shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary:

  • the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
  • you withdraw consent to which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
  • you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.
  • the personal data has been unlawfully processed.
  • the personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which we are subject.
  • the personal data has been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

Payment Method: Data protection provisions about the use of PayPal as a payment processor

On this website, we have integrated components of PayPal. PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed via so-called PayPal accounts, which represent virtual private or business accounts. PayPal is also able to process virtual payments through credit cards when a user does not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an e-mail address, which is why there are no classic account numbers. PayPal makes it possible to trigger online payments to third parties or to receive payments. PayPal also accepts trustee functions and offers buyer protection services.

The European operating company of PayPal is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

If you choose "PayPal" as the payment option in the online shop during the ordering process, we automatically transmit the data of you to PayPal. By selecting this payment option, you agree to the transfer of personal data required for payment processing.

The personal data transmitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, or other data necessary for payment processing. The processing of the purchase contract also requires such personal data, which are in connection with the respective order.

The transmission of the data is aimed at payment processing and fraud prevention. We will transfer personal data to PayPal, in particular, if a legitimate interest in the transmission is given. The personal data exchanged between PayPal and us for the processing of the data will be transmitted by PayPal to economic credit agencies. This transmission is intended for identity and creditworthiness checks.

PayPal will, if necessary, pass on personal data to affiliates and service providers or subcontractors to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or for data to be processed in the order.

You have the possibility to revoke consent for the handling of personal data at any time from PayPal. A revocation shall not have any effect on personal data which must be processed, used or transmitted in accordance with (contractual) payment processing.

The applicable data protection provisions of PayPal may be retrieved under https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

This Privacy Policy has been partially generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the DGD - Your External DPO that was developed in cooperation with German Lawyers from WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, Cologne.