Privacy Policy
Updated on 01st September 2025
Your privacy is of great concern to us.
Name of the controller
NAXOS DEUTSCHLAND Musik & Video Vertriebs-GmbH
Naxos Music Group
Director:
Matthias Lutzweiler | Iwen Schmees
Address of the data controller:
NAXOS DEUTSCHLAND Musik & Video Vertriebs-GmbH
Naxos Music Group
Gruber Str. 46b
85586 Poing
Data Protection Officer:
Michael Vogelbacher
consileo GmbH & Co. KG
Bahnhofstr. 5
53572 Unkel
Germany
Purpose and Data Minimisation
We collect and use your personal data solely within the framework of the European General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) and the legal provisions of the German Federal Republic. Below we inform you about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data. There shall be no processing for purposes other than those laid out below. You may access this Policy anytime on this website.
Data transmission and logging for system-internal and statistic purposes
For technical reasons, your web browser automatically transmits data to our webserver when you access our website. This data includes, inter alia, date and time of access, URL of the referring website, file viewed, amount of transmitted data, browser type and version, operating system and your IP address. This data is stored separately from other data you enter when using our service. We are not able to associate this data to a particular person. This data is analysed for statistical purposes and will subsequently be deleted.
Data subjects and data categories
Data subjects include clients, website users, vendors and business partners, as well as staff members. Within the scope described in “Purpose and data minimisation”, data categories include among others name, forename, address, IP address, payment details.
Legal basis
The legal basis for storing, processing and transferring your data is your consent (e.g. for use of non-essential cookies acc. Art. 6 I 1 a) EU-GDPR), our legitimate interest to constantly improve our communication with users by using tools, which is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms requiring protection of personal data (e.g. for use of essential cookies Art. 6 I 1 f) EU-GDPR), or in case of a contract conclusion (e.g.sales), your contractual agreement with us (Art. 6 I 1 b) EU-GDPR).
Erasure of data
When the purpose expires and there are no legal requirements to keep your personal data, we will delete it. In principal, data is only stored for the duration of the above-mentioned purposes.
Recipients or categories of recipients personal data might be shared with
none
Data transfer to third countries
Within the scope of maintenance services our group-intern service providers from countries outside the EU may have exceptionally and after prior consultation with the controller access to the usage data.
Rights of the data subject
You have at any time the right to address the controller (see above) and request information on how your data is process. You also have a right to rectification of your data. Or you can have the processing restricted, meaning a right to have processing limited to parts of your data. At any time, you may object to the processing of your personal data. When you do so, we will check whether there are any conflicting legal transmitting and processing obligations and inform you accordingly. At any time, you may request the erasure of your data. When you do so, we will check whether there are legal requirements or legitimate interest for further storing of your data and we will inform you accordingly. You also have a right to data portability, meaning that we hand over your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format determined by us upon your request.
In addition, if you feel that we do not treat your personal data properly and as laid out in this Policy, you have a right to complaint to the supervisory authority responsible for your country.
When you’ve given your consent to the processing of your data you may, of course, revoke your consent at any time.
If you receive advertising from us, you also have a right to object at any time so that we stop sending you ads.
Newsletter
When you register for the newsletter, we process your personal data (first name, last name, e-mail) for the purpose of sending you our newsletter with information and offers from NAXOS DEUTSCHLAND Musik & Video Vertriebs-GmbH. We send our newsletter using the RapidMail newsletter tool from Rapidmail GmbH (Augustinerplatz 2, 79098 Freiburg i.Br.). The data collected is stored by Rapidmail GmbH on servers in Germany. The processing of your data is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. If you register for our newsletter, we also store your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This is necessary to be able to prove your consent. As we need to document your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(c) GDPR in conjunction with. Art. 7 (1) GDPR, we are entitled to do so. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the end of each newsletter. By subscribing to the newsletter, you confirm that you wish to receive it in the future at the e-mail address you have provided to us.Webshop
When you use our webshop we process your personal data in order to conduct the order and purchase process. For that we process your name, surname, e-mail address, address, payment details.
It is also possible to create a voluntary profile for the future purchase processes. We will process your personal data to the extent as it is foreseen to conduct the order/purchase process.
Cookies
This website uses cookies. Cookies are strings of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer or mobile device and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cookies help improve websites’ user-friendliness and thus users (e.g. by storing login data), as well as with the collection of statistic data on website usage and analysis and improvement of our services. You can influence the use of cookies: most browsers have an option for limiting or completely disabling cookie storage. Please note that this might affect your use and in particular your comfort of use.
Google Analytics as a web analysis tool
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google (“Google”; for users within the EU: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House Barrow St, Dublin 4, Irland; im Übrigen: Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Through the IP anonymisation activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area in order to guarantee an anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). In exceptional cases, the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.
You can obtain more information in Google’s Privacy Policy on https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en; Google’s Explanation “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use [Google] Services” on https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en; information about advertising on https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en as well as information and ways to deactivate personalised ads on https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en.
Legal basis for the processing:
Art. 6 (1) a GDPR (consent)
Privacy policy for the use of Bootstrap CDN
To integrate scripts and stylesheets, we use the ‘Bootstrap CDN’ from StackPath LLC, 2021 McKinney Ave. Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75201, USA. Your IP address may be recorded.
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, the legitimate interest lies in the uniform and functional presentation of our website and in the reduction of loading times through the use of external libraries. The transfer to the USA takes place on the basis of the standard contractual clauses.
You can find further information at: https://bootstrap-europe.com/privacy-policy/
Privacy policy for the use of Consentmanager.net
We use the consent tool ‘consentmanager.net’ from consentmanager AB, Håltegelvägen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden. We use this tool to obtain the consent of our visitors to the storage of certain cookies and the use of services. Cookies are set to store the consent status.
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR (legal obligation) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in the legally compliant administration of our users' consents and in the documentation of consent decisions.
You can find further information at: https://www.consentmanager.de/datenschutz/
Privacy policy on the use of Google Tag Manager
We use the ‘Google Tag Manager’, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The Tag Manager itself does not store any personal data, but enables the integration and control of other services.
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, the legitimate interest lies in the technically error-free and efficient integration of tracking and analysis tools as well as in the central administration of website tags.
You can find further information at: https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/use-policy.html
Privacy policy on the use of YouTube
We use the plugin of the YouTube service, which belongs to Google (for users within the EU: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland; otherwise: Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). The YouTube plugins are the video boxes in which we upload videos about products, general information about the publisher or events. If you click in the video box, the corresponding video starts on our site. At the same time, your browser establishes a direct connection to the YouTube servers. The YouTube server thus receives information about which specific page of our website you have visited.
If you are also logged into your YouTube account or other Google account, you enable YouTube or Google to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this possibility of assignment by logging out of your account beforehand. Further information on this can be found in YouTube's privacy policy at http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy.
The legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(a) EU GDPR.
Privacy policy for our online presences in the social networks.
In the following, we inform you about which data is processed when you access our online presences in the social networks.
As the operator of our company website, we receive anonymized visitor statistics (insights) in the respective social network, which are created on the basis of data collected by the respective social network. Page insights are summarized data that provide us with information about how users interact with our site. We do not receive personal data. We therefore do not gain insight into the individual personal data of visitors to our company site. As the operator of the company site, we are jointly responsible for the visitor statistics (Insights) with the provider of the respective social network (Art. 26 DSGVO), with the provider of the respective social network assuming primary responsibility. The legal basis for the use of Insights data is our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) f) DSGVO to provide information and communication offers for interested parties and customers via social networks. We use this information for economic and communication purposes, including to remain competitive as a company.
When you access our online presences in the social networks, the respective social network places cookies on the device you use for this purpose (i.e. your computer or mobile device), which have the purpose of storing information in the web browsers and remain effective for a period of up to two years, unless they are deleted. The respective social network receives the information stored in the cookies, records it and processes it. This happens not only when you access services of the respective social network such as our Instagram/ Xing/ LinkedIn/ Twitter page, but also for services provided by other members of the corporate group of the respective social network, as well as services provided by other companies that use the services of the respective social network. Partners of the respective social network and third parties also use cookies on the respective social networks to provide services. The data is used by the respective social network and third party companies for product research and development and advertising and sponsored content.
Please note that cookies are placed when you access our company website regardless of whether or not you have an account on the respective social network.
If you have an account on the respective social network, the respective social network collects and processes data when you access the company page, provided you have provided this data in your account. This includes your age, gender, relationship status, professional situation as well as information about your lifestyle, interests and purchases or purchasing behavior (demographic data). The respective social network also collects and processes geographical data such as your location. This is used by the respective social networks to offer their information services and advertising in a targeted manner (personalization). The respective social network can assign this data to your person.
If you do not have an account on the respective social network, the cookie placement will in any case collect your IP address, information about your device, the region or, if applicable, the more precise location where you use it, call time and dwell time, as well as estimate the above demographic data based on your browsing behavior.
You can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of our company website (including your IP address) to the respective social network as well as the processing of this data by the respective social network by adjusting your cookie settings before calling up our company website in the social networks. Most browsers have an option to restrict or completely prevent the storage of cookies. However, it is pointed out that the use and especially the user comfort will be limited without cookies. In addition, you can activate the "do not track" function in your browser, disable script code executions in your browser or use a so-called script blocker.
The U.S. providers of the respective social network also have servers in the U.S. as well as other EU third countries and use a network of computers, cloud-based servers and other infrastructure and information technologies as well as other service providers that may be located outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland, i.e., in countries whose data protection does not meet the level of the EU GDPR and the Federal Republic of Germany. In this case, further guarantees such as standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission are concluded.
We maintain online presence on:
Facebook, provider: Meta Inc., Headquarters: 1 Hacker Way, 94025 Menlo Park, CA, USA; for users within the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland
For more information, please contact
- in Meta's data policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
- https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388?locale=da_DK&cms_id=155833707900388&force_new_ighc=false
- in Meta's Cookie Policy at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies/?subpage=subpage-4.5
- in the information on Page Insights data at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data,
