Imprint

Information pursuant to Section 5 Telemedia Act [TMG]:

[Entity responsible for the contents of this website:]

KARE Design GmbH
Zeppelinstrasse 16
85748 Garching-Hochbrück, Germany

Represented by:
Jürgen Reiter, Peter Schönhofen

Contact:

Telephone: 0049 (0) 89 / 320 82 0
Fax: 0049 (0) 89 / 320 82 1880
E-mail: info@kare.de

Registration:
Registered in the Commercial Register
Register court: Local Court of Munich
Registration number: HRB 164 249

VAT-ID pursuant to Section 27 a VAT Act (Umsatzsteuergesetz):
DE 250 622 249

Copyright

The contents und works created by the site operator on this site are governed by German copyright laws. Any duplication, processing, dissemination and any kind of exploitation beyond the limits of these copyright laws shall be subject to the author’s or originator’s prior consent in writing. Downloads and copies of this site are only allowed for private, but not for commercial use. To the extent that the contents of this site have not been created by its operator, the copyrights of such third parties must be observed. In particular, the contents created by third parties are marked as such. If nonetheless you should discover any copyright infringement in our site, please notify us correspondingly. If we become aware of any violation of law, we will promptly remove such contents.

Data privacy

The operator of this site takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We will keep your personal data confidential in accordance with the statutory data privacy regulations as well as this Data Privacy Statement.

As a rule, using our website is possible without disclosing any personal data. To the extent that personal data (such as name, address or e-mail addresses) are collected on our site, this will be made, to any possible extent, on a voluntary basis. These data will not be disclosed to third parties without your express consent.

We point to the fact that the transmission of data in the Internet (e.g. during e-mail communication) may be subject to security gaps. A perfect protection of data from access by third parties is not possible.

Data privacy statement for the use of Facebook plugins (like button)

Our site integrates plugins of the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. The Facebook plugins recognize you with the Facebook logo or the “like button” on our site. You find a summary of the Facebook plugins here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our site, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Thereby Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “like button” while you are logged in your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our site to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign the visit of our site to your user account. We point to the fact that we, as the provider of this site, know neither the content of the transmitted data nor their use by Facebook. You will find further information on this subject in the data privacy statement of Facebook under http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not wish that Facebook can assign the visit of our site to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Data privacy statement for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service offered by Google Inc. (“Google”). The provider is the Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text data which are stored on your computer and allow your website use to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be first abbreviated by Google in member states of the European Union and the European Economic Area. In exceptional cases only, the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. Google will make use of this information on behalf of the website operator in order to evaluate your website use, draw up reports on website activity, and to provide the website operator with further services relating to use of the website and the internet. The IP address transmitted within the framework of Google Analytics by your browser will not be combined with other Google data.

You can prevent cookies from being stored by using the appropriate setting on your browser; we would like to point out, however, that you may then not be able to make full use of all the functions offered by this website. It is also possible to prevent data concerning your use of the website (including your IP address), that has been generated by the cookie, from being transmitted to or processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Data privacy statement for the use of Google +1

Our site uses functions of Google +1. The provider is Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Collecting and disseminating information: the Google +1 button enables information to be distributed worldwide. You and other users may use the Google +1 button to receive personalised content from Google and our partners. Google saves both the information you have provided in order to create a +1content and information about the site that you have visited by clicking on +1. Your +1 activities, along with you profile names and your photo, may be displayed as notifications in Google services, such as search results, your Google profile, or other places on websites and advertisements in the internet. Google records information about your +1 activities in order to improve Google services for you and others. In order to use the Google +1 button, it is necessary to have a universally visible, public Google profile that includes, as a minimum, the name chosen for the profile. This name is to be used for all Google services. In certain cases, this name can replace another name that you have used for sharing contents via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile may be revealed to users who know your e-mail address or have access to other personally-identifying information relating to you.

Use of information collected: the information you provide will be used for the purposes listed above and in accordance with Google’s current data privacy provisions. Google may possibly publish summarised statistics relating to users’ +1 activities, or pass those statistics on to users and partners, e.g. publishers, advertisers or connected websites.

Data privacy statement for the use of Twitter

Twitter service functions are integrated into our website. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the “retweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users. Data are thereby transmitted to Twitter. Please note that, as the website provider, we do not gain any knowledge relating to the contents of the data transmitted or of their use on Twitter. Further information is available in the Twitter data privacy declaration under http://twitter.com/privacy.

Your may change your data privacy settings at Twitter in the account settings under http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Data privacy statement for the use of Pinterest

Our site uses social plugins of the social network Pinterest operated by Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA (“Pinterest”). If you call a site that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Pinterest. The plugin then transmits protocol data to the server of Pinterest in the USA. This protocol data may contain your IP address, the addresses of visited websites which also contain Pinterest functions, as well as type and settings of the browser, date and time of the query, your mode of using Pinterest, as well as Cookies.

For further information on purpose, extent and further processing and use of data by Pinterest as well as your rights and possibilities to protect your privacy, please see the data privacy information of Pinterest: https://about.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy

Data privacy statement for the use of Tumblr

Our website uses buttons of the Tumblr service. Provider is the Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. These buttons allow you to share an article or a site on Tumblr or to follow the provider on Tumblr. A direct connection with the servers of Tumblr will be established when you call one of our websites with the Tumblr button. We do not have any influence on the extent of data which are collected and transmitted with the help of the Tumblr plugin. In accordance with the current status the user’s IP address as well as the URL of the respective website will be transmitted.

Further information on that can be found within the privacy statement of Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/policy/de/privacy.

Information, deletion, blocking

You have the right to consult your personal information recorded by us, including the origin of these data, their recipients, the purpose of their processing, as well as to correct, block, or delete all this data free of charge at any time. You can contact us at any time under the contact information given under the imprint if you have questions about personal data.

Cookies

Our website uses partially so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer in any way and do not contain any viruses. Cookies serve the purpose of making our offer more user-friendly, more effective, and safer. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer by your browser.

Most of the cookies used on our website are so-called “session-cookies”. These will be automatically deleted by the end of your visit. Other cookies will be stored on your terminal until you delete them from your system. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser during your next visit.

You can set up your browser that you will be informed when cookies are saved or that you need to allow cookies in particular or special cases or generally exclude them as well as activate an automatic deletion when shutting down your browser. When deactivating cookies, the functionality of this website can be limited/ restricted.

Server-log files

The provider of this site automatically collects and stores information in so-called server-log files which are automatically transmitted by your browser to the provider. This information includes:

  • browser type/ browser version
  • utilised operating system
  • referrer URL
  • host name of accessing computer (IP address)
  • time of server request

These data cannot be related to any person in particular. A combination of these data with other data sources will not be made. We reserve all rights to check these data subsequently if there is any concrete indication of a violation of law.

Contact form

If you send us enquiries via our contact form, your information as well as therein stated contact data will be stored for processing your enquiries and possible subsequent questions. These data and information will not be passed on without your permission.

No advertising mails

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of our contact data published as part of our duty to publish an imprint for the purpose of sending us advertising mails that we have not expressly requested. The operators and owners of this site explicitly reserve the right to take legal action in the event that unrequested advertising mails are sent, such as in form of spam.

Newsletter data

If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on our website, we need you to provide a valid e-mail address and additional information allowing us to check that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided and that you are willing to receive the newsletter. Further data or information will not be collected. These data will only be used for the delivery of the requested information and will not be passed on to third parties.

Your approval to store the data, your e-mail address as well as the use of the newsletter delivery can be revoked at any time, for example through the “unsubscribe”-link within the newsletter.

Concept, technical realisation and maintenace

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The KARE brand symbolizes furnishing ideas which are unique, non-conformist and authentic. Ever since 1981 the company has been surprising its fans worldwide with an incomparable and inexhaustible variety of new furniture, lighting and furnishing accessories, all expressing an intense passion for design.