We appreciate your visit to our website and thank you for your interest in our company, our products and our web pages. Protecting your privacy when using our web pages is important to us. Therefore, please take note of the following information:

1) Basic Information about handling personal data

You may visit our website without your having to release any personal data. For each access to our website usage data will be transmitted by the respective internet browser and are stored in log files, the so called server log files such as date and time of the call, name of the accessed page, data volume transferred and the name of the inquiring provider. Those data cannot be attributed to a particular person and are exclusively intended to ensure a smooth operation of our website and to improve our offer.

Personal data are only collected if you voluntarily disclose such data to us for the purpose of concluding a contract or opening a customer account. It is evident from the respective input form which data are collected. Closing your customer account shall be possible at any time and may be effected through a message to the contact address described below. We store and use the data you disclose to us for the purpose of contract processing. Upon complete fulfilment of the contract or closing of your customer account, your data will be blocked with care for tax and commercial retention periods and will be deleted upon expiry of those periods, unless you have explicitly consented to the further use of your data or we reserve the right to use your data permitted by law. Hereinafter we inform you accordingly about such a reservation.

When contacting us (for example via contact form or e-mail) personal data will be collected. It is evident from the respective input form which data are collected. Those data will be stored and processed exclusively for the purpose of responding to your enquiry or of getting in contact with you and for the connected technical administration. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your inquiry, if you so desire, provided that legal retention periods will not be barred by a deletion.

Furthermore, personal data will be collected, if you register with our e-mail newsletter. Those data will be used for advertising purposes in the form of an e-mail newsletter, if you agree in this expressly as follows:

"Teh Tennis-Point Newsletter; Your personal data will not be passed on. The cancellation of the newsletter-sub is always possible."

You can cancel the newsletter at any time by clicking on the link provided in the newsletter or by a corresponding message addressed to us. After cancelation your e-mail address will be immediately deleted in our newsletter mailing list.

2) Transfer of personal data for the purpose of order handling

2.1 For the purpose of contract fulfillment, personal data collected by us are transferred to the transport company commissioned with the delivery, provided this is required for delivering the goods. For the processing of payments we pass on your payment data to the authorized banking institution.

2.2 If paying per PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit per PayPal or, if offered, purchasing on account via PayPal, we transfer your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.a. r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as "PayPal") for the purpose of payment processing. PayPal reserves itself the exclusion of certain payment methods such as credit card via PayPal, direct debit per PayPal or, if offered, purchasing on account, after the result of a credit investigation. PayPal uses the result of the credit check with regard to the statistical probability of failure for the purpose of deciding whether to offer the corresponding payment method. The credit check may contain probability values (so called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the credit report, they are based on scientifically recognized, mathematical-statistical procedures. Among other data, address data are taken into account when calculating the score values. For further information on our privacy policy and the use of credit agencies, please refer to the PayPal data protection information: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

2.3 Personal data collected by us will be passed on to the transport company commissioned with delivery within the framework of implementing the contract, as far as this is necessary for the delivery of goods.

2.4 If delivery of goods takes place by transport service provider UPS (United Parcel Service Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG, Görlitzer Straße 1, 41460 Neuss), we pass on your e-mail address to UPS with your express consent, prior to the delivery of the product, for the purpose of coordinating a date of delivery or of a notice about the shipment status, as follows:

„I agree that my e-mail address will be passed on to UPS (United Parcel Service Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG, Görlitzer Straße 1, 41460 Neuss) to enable UPS to contact me via e-mail, prior to the delivery of the product, for the purpose of coordinating a date of delivery or of a notice about the shipment status. I can revoke my respective consent at any time.”

Otherwise, we will only pass on the name of the recipient and the delivery address to UPS. In this case the prior coordination of the date of delivery with UPS or a report about the shipment status is not possible.

3) Cookies

Among other things this website uses so-called "cookies” serving to make our Internet presence more user-friendly, effective and secure – for instance to accelerate navigation on our platform. Furthermore, cookies allow us to measure the frequency of website visits as well as general navigation. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer system. Please note that some of these cookies are transferred from our server to your computer system, mostly so-called "session cookies”. "Session cookies” are characterized by being automatically deleted from your hard drive upon the end of the browser session. Other cookies remain on your computer system and allow us to recognize your computer system during your next visit (so-called permanent cookies). You may certainly decline these cookies at any time provided your browser permits this. Please note that once your browser is set to decline cookies (from our website) certain features of this website may not be available or restricted.

4) Contact for requesting customer rating information

We transmit your e-mail address to Trusted Shops GmbH, Subbelrather Str. 15c, 50823 Köln (www.trustedshops.de) as a reminder for giving an assessment of your order since Trusted Shops is supposed to remind you about the possibility of giving such an assessment via e-mail. We only do so, if you have given us your explicit consent prior to or after submitting your order by activating a corresponding check box and by clicking a button ("evaluate at a later stage”) provided for this purpose. This consent may be revoked at any time by notifying Trusted Shops via the contact address mentioned below or directly.

5) Use of Google AdWords Conversion-Tracking

This website utilizes the online advertising program "Google AdWords” and the conversion tracking within the framework of Google AdWords. The conversion-tracking cookie is set on the user’s browser, if he clicks on an ad delivered by Google. Cookies are small text files, which the internet browser places on your browser. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days .They are not used to acquire personal identification data. If the user visits a certain page of this website and if the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we will be able to tell that the user clicked on the ad and was forwarded to this page. Each Google AdWords client gets a different cookie. Thus, cookies cannot be tracked via the website of AdWords clients. The information collected by the conversion cookies are used to provide aggregate conversion statistics to AdWord clients who have opted-in for conversion tracking. Clients are informed about the total number of users who clicked on the ad and were forwarded to a conversion tracking tag page. However, they do not get any information enabling them to identify users personally. If you do not want to participate in the tracking program, you can refuse the use of this program by easily deactivating the google conversion-tracking cookie via your internet browser through the user settings. In this case, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Further information concerning Google data privacy can be found at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/

6) Social Plugins

6.1 We have incorporated so-called plugins of the social network facebook.com (hereinafter "Facebook”) into our website. Facebook is a company of the Facebook Inc., California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States. A list and the appearance of these Facebook plugins may be viewed at the following Internet address: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

During each visit of a webpage of our online presence that is equipped with such a plugin, the plugin causes the browser used by you to download the visual presentation of the plugin from the Facebook server and to display it. By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that your browser has visited the respective webpage of our website even if you do not have a Facebook user account or are not currently logged into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) will be sent directly from your browser to a server from Facebook in the United States and stored there.

If you are a member of Facebook, and while visiting our website are logged into Facebook, Facebook due to information sent by the plugin recognizes which particular webpage of our website you are currently visiting and assigns this to your personal Facebook user account regardless of whether you activate one of the plugins. Should you then activate one of the plugins, for example by clicking the "I like” button or by submitting a comment, this will be sent to your personal user account with Facebook and stored there. To prevent Facebook from assigning collected data to your user account on Facebook, you have to log out from Facebook before visiting our website. To block Facebook plugins from collecting and transferring your visitor data in the future you may obtain a Browser Add On by "Facebook Blocker” for several Internet browsers at the following link; please do not delete the Browser Add On for as long as you wish to block Facebook plugins: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/

At the following Internet address you can find Facebook’s privacy policy with further information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your relevant rights as well as on settings for the protection of your privacy:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

6.2 On our webpage we use the "+1” Button of the social network Google+ (Google Plus) of the Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043 United States, (hereinafter "Google").

During each visit of a webpage of our website that is equipped with a "+1” button, the "+1” button causes the browser used by you to download the visual presentation of the "+1” button from the Google server and to display it. By doing so, the Google server receives the information which particular webpage of our website you are currently visiting. When displaying a "+1” button, Google records your browsing history for a period of up to two weeks for system maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. Further evaluation of your visit of a website of our website with a "+1” button does not take place.

Should you activate the "+1” button while being logged into Google+ (Google Plus), then Google by using your Google profile records information on the URL recommended by you, your IP address and other browser related information so that your "+1” recommendation can be stored and made publicly accessible. Your "+1” recommendation may be displayed as reference together with your profile name and your photo in Google services such as search results or your Google profile (as "+1” tab in your Google profile) or in other places on websites and adverts on the Internet.

At the following Internet address you will find the privacy policy of Google regarding the "+1” button with further information on collection, transfer and use of data by Google, your relevant rights as well as your options for profile setting:
https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy

6.3 This website uses so called social plugins (« plugins ») from the micro-blogging service Twitter operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (« Twitter »). The plugins are labeled with the Twitter logo, for example in the form of a blue « Twitter » bird. You will find an overview of the Twitter plugins and their appearance at: https://about.twitter.com/uk/resources/buttons.

If you request a page of our website, which contains such a plugin, your browser will build up a direct connection to the servers of Twitter. The plugin’s content will be directly tranmitted from Twitter to your browser, which will integrate it into the page. Through integration of the plugin, Twitter obtains the information that you browser has accessed the relevant page of our website, even if you do not have a Twitter profile or if you are not logged into Twitter currently. This information (including your IP address) will be directly transmitted from your browser to a Twitter server in the USA and saved there.

If you are logged into Twitter, Twitter may directly assign the visit of our website to your Twitter account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by activating the Twitter button, the corresponding information will also be directly transmitted by your browser to a Twitter server in the USA and saved there. Furthermore, this information will be released on your Twitter account and revealed to your contacts.

To learn more about the purpose and extent of data collection, processing and the use of this data by Twitter as well as your rights in this respect and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Twitter’s privacy policy : https://twitter.com/privacy.

If you do not want Twitter to allocate data collected via our website to your Twitter account, you have to log out of Twitter prior to visiting our website. You can completely prevent the downloading of Twitter plugins by browser add-ons, for example by using the script blocker : « NoScript » (http://noscript.net/).

7) Youtube-Videos

This website uses the Youtube embedding functions for display and playback of videos offered by "Youtube". To this end, the extended data protection mode is used to ensure, according to provider information, that user information will only be stored once the playback functon of the video is started. When the playback function of embedded Youtube videos is started, the provider sets "Youtube" cookies in order to collect information on users. According to indications from "Youtube", the use of those cookies is intended to record video statistics, to improve user-friendliness and to avoid improper actions. Regardless of whether the embedded video is played back, a connection to the Google network "double click" is established when visiting this website. This may trigger further data processing beyound our control.

Further information on "YouTube" data protection can be found in the provider's data protection statement at: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/

8) Web analysis service

8.1 This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called Cookies, text files which are stored on your computer and which enable you to conduct an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website will normally be transmitted to a server in the US, where it is stored.

In the case of activating an IP anonymizer for this website, your IP address will however be abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union or within other member states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address will be transmitted to a server in the US, where it is abbreviated. On behalf of the website operator, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide further services connected to the website use and the internet use for the benefit of the website operator.

The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be linked to other data retrieved by Google. You may prevent the storage of cookies by making the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we should point out that in that case you might not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You may permanently refuse Google to collect data generated by cookies regarding the use of the website (including your IP address) and to process them by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

As an alternative to the browser plugin or for browsers regarding mobile devices, please click on the following link in order to set an opt-out cookie, which disables Google Analytics to collect data on this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only functions for this browser and this domain. If you delete your cookies on this browser, you have to click again on this link:

Deactivate Google Analytics

It is noted that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension “anonymizetp()”. IP addresses can therefore be processed only in abbreviated form in order to prevent personal references.

8.2 This website uses technologies from econda GmbH (www.econda.com) to collect and store data for marketing and optimization purposes. Pseudonymized user profiles are created on the basis of those data. Cookies can be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are locally stored in the visitor’s local browser cache. Cookies allow the recognition of the web browser. Data collected with econda technology shall not be used to personally identify the website visitor without special consent granted by the person concerned and shall not be merged with personal data on the pseudonym holder. You may object to data collection and storage at all times with effect for the future. To object to collection and storage of your user data for the future you may obtain an opt-out cookie from econda ensuring that in the future no user data of your browser are collected and stored by econda:

http://www.econda.com/econda/company/data-protection/

The opt-out cookie is called “econdaNoTrack” and is placed by “econda”. Please do not delete this opt-out cookie as long as you wish to maintain your objection. Further information on econda’s privacy policy is available on the following website:

http://www.econda.com/econda/company/data-protection/

8.3 In order to evaluate usage of this website, it uses analytics services of the company Inspectlet, www.inspectlet.com ("analytics services"). By using cookies, these analytics services enable the evaluation of the way that you use the website (e.g. which content is clicked). A usage profile is visually displayed along with it (so-called "heatmaps"). While using these analytics services, none of your personal information is gathered, processed or used. Only usage profiles under pseudonyms are created. This website employs these analytics services exclusively for the purpose of adequate configuration of our services and for the purpose of marketing research and will not combine the data gathered under a pseudonym with the data about you, the bearer of the pseudonym. At any point in time, you can object to the gathering, processing and collecting of the data created by the analytics services by following the instructions at http://www.inspectlet.com/optout.

8.4 This site uses the New Relic web analytics service for the statistical evaluation of visitor access, operated by New Relic, Inc., 188 Spear St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. New Relic collects and stores data, from which usage profiles are created under a pseudonym for the purposes of analysing visitor behaviour and improving the site's design, as well as for optimisation and marketing purposes. New Relic uses so-called "cookies"; these cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser. These cookies serve to recognise the browser, thereby enabling a more accurate determination of the statistical data. New Relic will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports regarding website activity and provide additional services related to website and Internet usage. New Relic will never associate your personal data with other New Relic data. If you wish to object to the evaluation of your user behaviour via cookies, you can set up your browser to ensure that you are notified of the use of cookies and can decide to individually accept or exclude the use of cookies in certain cases, or generally.
Alternatively, you can check whether New Relic promotional cookies are being used in your browser and disable these by using the deactivation website for consumers in the EU, http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/.
You can view New Relic's privacy policy on the following website: https://newrelic.com/privacy

9) Retargeting

- This web site uses the technology of Criteo SA, 32 rue Blanche, 75009 Paris, France. For advertising purposes, data are collected and stored in an anonymized form about the navigation behavior of visitors to the web site. Those data are stored on your computer with the help of text files (“cookies”). Criteo analyses the navigation behavior with the help of algorithms and is subsequently able to display product recommendations in form of personalized advertising banners on other internet sites. On no account, those data will be used to identify personally the visitor of the website. Collected data will only be used to improve the offer. No other use or disclosure to third parties is envisaged. You can object to future collection of data and to the preparation of an anonymous user profile by activating the opt-out cookie at the following address: http://www.criteo.com/privacy/.
- This website uses retargeting technology of Google Inc. (“Google”). This technology enables us to target visitors of our website with interest-based ads who already have shown interest in our shop and in our products. The ads are displayed by using a cookie-based analysis of the previous usage data. Personal data will not be stored. In the case of retargeting technology, a cookie will be stored on your computer or your mobile devices in order to collect anonymized date about your interests and adapt ads specifically according to the stored information. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or your mobile devices. They help us to display ads, which are most likely to correspond to your product and information interests. You may permanently refuse the setting of cookies for advertisement purposes by downloading and installing the browser plug-in using the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
You will find further information as well as our privacy policy regarding advertisement and Google here: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
- If you have given us your explicit consent, by clicking on a button provided for that purpose, we will apply the “Facebook Pixel” of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”) within our presence on the internet. By doing so, users’ behavior can be tracked after they have seen or clicked on a Facebook ad. This technique is designed to evaluate the impact of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and may help to optimize future advertising activities.
Data collected shall remain anonymous and cannot be used to draw any conclusions about the identity of the user. However, those date are stored and processed by Facebook to enable a connection to the user profile and to allow Facebook to use those data for its own advertisement purposes in accordance with the Facebook privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation). You may allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on Facebook and outside of Facebook. Furthermore, a cookie may be placed on your computer for this purpose.
Only users older than 13 years are permitted to give a consent to use Facebook pixels. If you are younger, we request you to ask your legal guardian for permission. You may object to the use of cookies in a general manner, by choosing a setting of your browser to prevent cookies from being placed on your computer any more or to allow you to disable cookies already placed. If you have disabled all cookies, certain functions on our website may not work properly. You may deactivate the use of third party cookies as for example Facebook with the aid of the Digital Advertising Alliance website at: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
- This website uses the Conversion-Tracking Technology “Bing Ads” of (Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA). Microsoft Bing Ads places a cookie on your computer, if you have got to our website via a Microsoft Bing Ad. Cookies are small text files, which are placed on your computer. These cookies lose their validity after 180 days. They are not meant for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of our website and if the cookie has not yet expired, we and Microsoft are able to recognize that the user has clicked the ad and has been forwarded to this page (conversion page). The information collected via the conversion cookies are meant to compile statistics, i.e. to register how many users have arrived at a conversion page after clicking the ad. We hereby learn the total number of the users who clicked on our ad and were forwarded to a conversion tracking tag page. However, we do not obtain any information by which users can be identified personally. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking, you may object to this usage by easily deactivating the Bing Ads conversion tracking cookie via your internet browser and your user settings. In this case, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Alternatively, you can check by using the deactivation page meant for EU consumer (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/), if Microsoft advertising cookies have been placed on your browser, and then deactivate them.
Further information about the privacy policy of Microsoft Bing Ads can be found on the following website: https:// https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement).

10) Google certified trader programs

We cooperate with Google Inc. („Google“) in the framework of the Google certified trader programs. This program offers you a buyer protection. Furthermore, within this program, you may obtain information in particular about our quality regarding client service and punctuality with respect to shipping. For this purpose, all the data regarding your order such as order value, currency, country of delivery, shipping costs, taxes and possible rebates will be transmitted to Google and will be stored there. Your e-mail address will only be transmitted to Google, if you make use of the buyer protection provided free of charge in the framework of the Google certified trader programs by clicking on the opt-in module during the order process. By participating in this service provided exclusively by and via the services offered by Google, you agree with the terms of use drawn up by Google to this end which can be found under the following link: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/.

11) Use of Single Sign On procedure

On our website, you can create a customer account and/or register using the social plug-in, "Facebook Connect", provided by the Facebook social network operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"), by means of so-called single sign-on technology, provided you have a Facebook profile. The "Facebook Connect" social plug-in on our website is identified by a blue button featuring the Facebook logo and the words, "Connect with Facebook" or "Log in with Facebook" or "Sign in with Facebook".

When you visit a page of our website that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook server. The content of the plug-in is transferred from Facebook directly to your browser and included on the page. As a result of this inclusion, Facebook is informed that your browser has visited the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook profile or are not currently logged into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a Facebook server in the US, where it is stored.

Using this "Facebook Connect" button on our website allows you to log in and/or register on our website using your Facebook user data. When using the "Facebook Connect" button, we receive the publically accessible information stored in your profile from Facebook, depending on your personal Facebook privacy settings. This information includes your user ID, name, profile picture, age and gender. We would like to point out that following changes to Facebook's privacy and usage policies, your profile pictures, your friends' user IDs and your friends list may also be transmitted, if these are marked as "public" in your Facebook privacy settings. The data transmitted by Facebook is stored and processed by us to create a user account using the necessary data, provided you have approved this with Facebook (title, first name, surname, address details, country, e-mail address, date of birth). Conversely, data may be transmitted by us to your Facebook profile; this may include information about your browsing and/or purchasing behaviour. When using the "Facebook Connect" button, you will also be advised about the sharing of your data with Facebook when activating the button; you will also have the option to provide your explicit consent to your Facebook user data being accessed, as well as consent to the publication of information and activities in your Facebook profile. This consent can be revoked at any time by sending a message to the contact details given below.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy in this regard, can be found in Facebook's privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
If you do not wish Facebook to assign the data collected via our website directly to your Facebook profile, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. You can also completely prevent the loading of Facebook plug-ins using add-ons for your browser, e.g. "Facebook Blocker" (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/).

12) Use of a voucher network marketing service provider

Upon completion of the order process, we offer vouchers from the network of our partner, Sovendus. Sovendus is a voucher network that allows partner shops to prepare vouchers and distribute these to their customers; this voucher network is operated by Sovendus GmbH, Moltkestr. 11, 76133 Karlsruhe. We therefore forward the data required to issue these vouchers to Sovendus. This data is only forwarded to Sovendus once you have completed your purchase and clicked the Sovendus banner. The forwarded data is used exclusively to pre-populate the fields required to issue the vouchers and at this point, your data is not stored by Sovendus. You can view the privacy policy of the Sovendus voucher network at the following link: https://www.sovendus.de/en/privacy_policy/

13) Information on Customer Rights and Contacts

You are entitled to obtain information on your saved data free of charge and on how to correct, block or delete this data where applicable. Please contact us with any further inquiries about the collection, processing or use of your personal data. The same shall apply for obtaining information, your requests to block, delete or correct your personal data as well as for withdrawals of granted consents. You can find our contact address in our legal notice.