PRIVACY POLICY

REVOCATION OF YOUR CONSENT TO DATA PROCESSING

Some data processing operations can only be carried out with your express consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time. An informal communication by email suffices for revocation. The legality of any data processing prior to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

RIGHT TO COMPLAIN TO THE RELEVANT REGULATORY AUTHORITY

As a data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority in the event of a breach of data protection law. The relevant supervisory authority with regard to data protection issues is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. The following link provides a list of data protection officers and their contact details: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html

RIGHT OF DATA PORTABILITY

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract issued to you or to third parties. This data is provided in a machine-readable format. Direct transfer of the data to another contact at your request is only carried out where it is technically feasible.

Right to information, correction, blocking, deletion

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to third parties. It is provided in a machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another person responsible, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL/TLS ENCRYPTION

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content that you send to us as the site operator, our website uses SSL or TLS encryption. This ensures that third parties cannot view data that you transmit to the website. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the ‘https://’ in the address bar of your browser and the padlock symbol in the browser bar.

SERVER LOG FILES

"The provider of the website automatically collects and stores information in server log files which your browser automatically transmits to us. This information consists of: pages visited on our domain, time and date of server request, browser type and version, operating system used, referring URL, host name of the accessing computer, IP address

This data is not combined with other data sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which allows for processing of data in fulfilment of a contract or for pre-contractual measures."

CONTACT FORM

Data transmitted via the contact form, including your contact details, is stored to allow us to process your request or for follow-up questions. This data is not transferred elsewhere without your consent.

Data entered in the contact form is only processed with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time. An informal communication by email suffices for revocation. The legality of any data processing operations prior to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. We retain data transmitted via the contact form until you ask us to erase it, revoke your consent to storage, or once the need for data storage has lapsed. Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

NEWSLETTER DATA

To send our newsletter, we need an email address from you. We are required to verify the email address provided and obtain your consent for receipt of the newsletter. Any additional data is either not collected or voluntary. This data is used solely for sending the newsletter.

Data used in registering for the newsletter is only processed with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may withdraw your consent at any time. An informal communication by email or activation of the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in the newsletter suffices for revocation. The legality of any prior data processing operations remains unaffected by the revocation.

Once you unsubscribe, any data you entered in setting up the subscription will be erased. If this data has been transmitted to us for other purposes and from another location, we will retain it.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies, small text files that your web browser stores on your device. Cookies help us to make our web presence more user-friendly, effective and secure. Some cookies are known as ‘session cookies’. These are automatically deleted at the end of your browser session. Other cookies are stored on your device until you delete them yourself. These cookies help us to recognise you when you return to our website.

Modern web browsers allow you to monitor, restrict or prevent the setting of cookies. Many web browsers can be configured to allow for automatic deletion of cookies when the program is closed. The deactivation of cookies may result in restricted functionality of our website.

Cookies required for electronic communication processes or in provision of certain functions you may require (e.g. shopping cart) are set on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. As the operator of this website, we have a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the smooth, error-free provision of our services. Other cookies that may be set (e.g. for analysis functions) are addressed separately in this privacy policy.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use ‘Google reCAPTCHA’ (hereinafter ‘reCAPTCHA’) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (‘Google’). The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether data is entered on our website (e.g. in a contact form) by a human or by an automated program. reCAPTCHA uses various characteristics to analyse the behaviour of the website visitor. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the visitor accesses the website. For its analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates a range of information (e.g. IP address, how long the website visitor spends on the website, mouse movements made by the user). The data captured by this analysis is transferred to Google. reCAPTCHA analysis runs entirely in the background. Website visitors are not alerted that this analysis is taking place.

This data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web presence from improper automated spying and from spam.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, see the following links: [https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en]https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and [https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/]https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/.

Source: Data protection configurator from mein-datenschutzbeauftragter.de