YOUR RIGHTS AS THE DATA SUBJECT
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details of our data protection officer:
– Information on your data stored by us and the processing thereof (Art. 15 GDPR),
– Rectification of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
– Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
– Restriction of the data processing, provided that we may not delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
– Objection to the processing of your data with us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
– Data portability, provide that you have consented to the data processing or have entered into a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).
If you have given us consent, you may withdraw it at any time, which will remain in effect in the future.
You can contact a supervisory authority with a complaint at any time, e.g. the supervisory authority of the state of your residence or the authority that oversees us as the responsible party.
You’ll find a list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public area) with their respective addresses at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT
TYPE AND PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING
When you access our website – i.e. if you do not register or submit information – information of a general nature will be collected automatically. This information (server log files) contains the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like.
It is processed in particular for the following purposes:
– Ensuring an unproblematic website connection
– Ensuring seamless use of our website
– Analysis of system security and stability as well as
– For additional administrative purposes.
We will not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. This type of information will be statistically analysed by us if necessary to optimise our website and its underlying technology.
LEGAL BASIS:
The processing occurs according to Art. 6 Para. 1 (f) GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
RECIPIENTS:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers, who work on the operation and maintenance of our website as the processor.
RETENTION PERIOD:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
MANDATORY OR REQUIRED PROVISION:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually mandatory. Without the IP address however, the service and functionality of our website are not guaranteed. Furthermore, individual services can be unavailable or limited. For this reason, an objection is excluded.
COOKIES
NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING:
Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website.
This provides us with certain data such as IP address, browser used and operating system.
Cookies cannot be used to launch programs or transfer viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies allows us to facilitate your navigation and enable the correct display of our web pages.
Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.
STORAGE DURATION AND COOKIES USED:
If you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:
Insofar as these cookies may (also) affect personal data, we inform you about this in the following sections.
You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie stock via your browser settings. In addition, you will receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance.
Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links:
– Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernen
– Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
– Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
– Opera: http://www.opera.com/de/help
– Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=de_DE
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USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS
NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: “Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be truncated beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, 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 to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
The purposes of the data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Other related services are then to be provided based on the use of the website and the internet.
LEGAL BASIS:
The processing of the data is based on the user’s consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).
RECIPIENT:
The recipient of the data is Google as an order processor. We have concluded the corresponding order processing agreement with Google for this purpose.
STORAGE PERIOD:
Data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for our recording purposes.
THIRD COUNTRY TRANSFER:
Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
PROVISION PRESCRIBED OR REQUIRED:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.
WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT:
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. In addition, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.
In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our pages by using this Click link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This prevents the collection of data by Google Analytics for this website and this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.
PROFILING:
With the help of the tracking tool Google Analytics, the behaviour of visitors to the website can be evaluated and interests analysed. For this purpose, we create a pseudonymous user profile.
EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEOS:
NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING:
We embed YouTube videos on some of our websites. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter “YouTube”).
When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This tells YouTube which pages you are visiting. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behaviour to you personally.
You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account first. If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behaviour.
Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube can be found in the provider’s data protection declarations, where you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy. (https://policies.google.com/privacy). Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework
LEGAL BASIS:
The legal basis for the integration of YouTube and the associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).
RECIPIENT:
Calling up YouTube automatically triggers a connection to Google.
STORAGE PERIOD AND REVOCATION OF CONSENT:
Those who have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad programme will not have to expect any such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you would like to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in the browser.
Further information on data protection at “YouTube” can be found in the provider’s privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
THIRD COUNTRY TRANSFER:
Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
PROVISION PRESCRIBED OR REQUIRED:
The provision of personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, the correct display of the content may not be possible due to standard fonts.
PROVISION PRESCRIBED OR REQUIRED:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.
SSL ENCRYPTION:
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
CHANGE IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY:
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection statement will then apply to your next visit.
QUESTIONS TO THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER:
If you have any questions about data protection, please write us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organisation directly:
The data protection declaration was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers. (Version #2019-04-10).