Commerce Connector Cookie Notice

Information on Data Protection

The manufacturer, whose digital touchpoint (e.g.website, microsite, display ad etc.) you have here been referred to, uses our software-based service Commerce Connector Buy Now online (previous Commerce Connector Online). The manufacturer uses it to point out to the visitors of his digital touchpoints any available retailers where a certain product can be purchased. The list of retailers that sell the product you have chosen at the manufacturer’s digital touchpoint derives from our software-based service Commerce Connector Buy Now online.

If you click the “buy now button” (the specific naming may vary) or a shop logo of a respective retailer, you arrive at the website of the respective retailer and directly to the product, which interests you.

What happens if you click the “buy now button” (the specific naming may vary) or a shop logo?

When using the software-based service Commerce Connector Buy Now online, we ask for your consent to use cookies for a so called “sales tracking”, which we use to receive information on your purchase from a retailer. Cookies are text files that your browser stores on your computer. They contain information regarding your usage of a digital touchpoint.

If you click the “buy now button” (the specific naming may vary) or a shop logo and give consent to set cookies, we install for a limited period of time (usually 7 days) a cookie on your device. If you complete a purchase with the retailer during this period, we can access the cookie to receive the information that you have reached the participating retailer’s website via the manufacturer’s digital touchpoint. Furthermore, we receive information about your purchase from the retailer when you reach the retailer’s order confirmation page.

We receive no information at all that could identify you. We use the purchase information to prepare anonymous sales statistics of the products of the respective manufacturer which have been purchased via a link of our software-based service Commerce Connector Buy Now online. Subsequently, we make these statistics available to the specific manufacturer only.
You can find more information on the cookies that are being used for this purpose in the following chapter.

Cookies

Here you can find a list of all cookies that are being used for our software-based service Commerce Connector Buy Now online.

Name of Cookie	Expiration	Description
ccuuid_{shopId} -or- ccuuid	7 days	This cookie is needed for the sales tracking in order to determine whether a purchase from a retailer is due to mediation by Commerce Connector. The cookie is set by Commerce Connector at the moment of forwarding, only in case the retailer that has been chosen by the user participates in the sales reports. The cookie will be automatically deleted upon a successful mediation, or else expires automatically after a period of 7 days, if by then no purchase has been made. The cookie saves technical characteristics only from which no direct or indirect conclusion as to the identity of a user would be possible.

If you want to deactivate the sales tracking of Commerce Connector in your browser, please select “Proceed without cookies”.

If you choose to Opt-out, we will set a cookie in your browser that ensures that you are instantly excluded from Commerce Connector´s sales tracking. Should you clear your browser´s cache in the future, please repeat the aforementioned steps as the Opt-out cookie of Commerce Connector is then also deactivated.

Some online retailers share anonymized sales data through a variety of “Affiliate Networks”, without the use of the above-mentioned Commerce Connector Cookie. If a user clicks on the “Buy Now” button (which can have a variety of different names) or the online retailer’s logo, and this online Retailer is connected to us via an “Affiliate Network”, you will be forwarded to the online retailer via the respective Affiliate Network and a cookie will be set also based on the respective Affiliate Network. The Affiliate Network then receives the sales information from the respective online retailer and shares this anonymized data with Commerce Connector.

If you choose the option “Continue Without Cookies”, we inform the respective Affiliate Network automatically of your preference to proceed to the online retailer without the setting of any cookies.

For more detailed information on Affiliate Network Data Privacy, please see below:

Affiliate Network	privacy information
AWIN	https://www.awin.com/de/rechtliches/privacy-policy-DACH

Should you wish to obtain more detailed information on cookies, please consult www.aboutcookies.org.

Right of objection

You may at all times, without indication of reasons, revoke your consent with regard to the usage of cookies for sales tracking purposes by using the above described option to block cookies in your browser settings. Alternatively, you may delete the respective cookie directly from your browser or use the above described opt-out option at https://www.commerce-connector.com/web/en/policy-cco/.

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