Privacy Policy
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that allows you to be personally identified. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.
Data Collection on Our Website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find his contact details in the legal notice of this website.
How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected partly by you providing it to us. This could be, for example, data that you enter into a contact form. Other data is automatically collected when our IT systems visit the website. This is primarily technical data, such as your Internet browser, operating system, or time of page view. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website is deployed without errors. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking, or deletion of this data. For this and other questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.
Third-Party Analysis Tools and Tools
When you visit our website, your browsing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is done primarily with cookies and so-called analytics programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually done anonymously; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you.
You can disagree with this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy. You can disagree with this analysis. We will inform you about possible objections in this privacy policy.
2. General Information and Mandatory Information
Data Protection
The operators of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
When you use this website, various personal data will be collected. Personal data is data that allows you to be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.
Please note that data transmission on the Internet may have security vulnerabilities, particularly when communicating via email. Complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible.
Note Regarding the Responsible Body
The responsible body for data processing on this website is:
The responsible body is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, is responsible for the purposes and means of processing personal data, such as names and email addresses.
Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. For this, an informal notification via email to us is sufficient.
The legality of the data processing carried out up to and including the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority
In the event of data protection violations, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
The competent supervisory authority in data protection matters is the state data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based.
A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/anschriften_table.html
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to have data that we process automatically based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format.
If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.
SSL or TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption.
You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser's address bar changes from http:// to https:// and by the lock icon in your browser bar.
If SSL or TLS encryption is enabled, the data you submit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Information, Blocking, Deletion
Within the framework of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to receive free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient, the purpose of the data processing, and, where applicable, a right to rectification, blocking, or deletion of this data.
For this and other questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice.
Objection to Advertising Emails
The use of contact details published under the legal notice requirement for the transmission of advertising and information materials not expressly requested is hereby objected to.
The operators of the sites expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example through spam emails.
3. Data Collection on Our Website
Cookies
Some websites use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are used to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They will be automatically deleted after your visit ends.
Other cookies will remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and enable the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed.
The functionality of this website may be limited when cookies are deactivated.
Cookies that are used to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you desire, such as a shopping cart function, are required based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services.
If other cookies are stored to analyze your browsing behavior, these will be addressed separately in this privacy policy.
Server Log Files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us.
These are:
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Hostname of the accessing computer
- Time of server request
- IP address
This data will not be merged with other data sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.
Contact Form
If you send us inquiries via contact form, your information from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored with us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions.
We will not share this data without your consent. The processing of the data entered into the contact form is therefore carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).
You can withdraw this consent at any time. For this, an informal notification via email to us is sufficient.
The legality of the data processing operations carried out up to and including the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request its deletion, revoke your consent to be stored, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies, such as after your request has been processed.
Mandatory legal provisions, in particular retention periods, remain unaffected.
4. Plugins and Tools
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, a site operated by Google. The website is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. The YouTube server will be informed which of our pages you have visited.
When you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
The use of YouTube is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Further information on handling user data can be found in YouTube's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Vimeo
Our website uses plugins from the video portal Vimeo. The provider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
When you visit one of our pages equipped with a Vimeo plugin, a connection to Vimeo's servers is established. The Vimeo server will be informed which of our pages you have visited. Vimeo also obtains your IP address.
This also applies if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have an account with Vimeo.
The information collected by Vimeo is transmitted to the Vimeo server in the USA.
When you are logged into your Vimeo account, you allow Vimeo to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.
Further information on handling user data can be found in Vimeo's privacy policy at: https://vimeo.com/legal/privacy/policy
Google Web Fonts
This page uses so-called web fonts, provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts.
When you access a page, your browser loads the necessary web fonts into its browser cache to display text and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers.
This informs Google that our website was accessed via your IP address.
The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer will use a standard font.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, please visit: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Google Maps
This page uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use Google Maps' features, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA.
The provider of this page has no influence on this data transfer.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offerings and easy discoverability of the places we specify on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
For more information on handling user data, see Google's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
5. Online Marketing and Partner Programs
Amazon Partner Program
The operators of the sites participate in the Amazon EU partner program. Amazon integrates advertisements and links to the Amazon.de website into our pages, where we can earn money through advertising cost reimbursement.
Amazon uses cookies to trace the origin of orders. Amazon can recognize that you have clicked the partner link on our website through these cookies.
The storage of "Amazon cookies" is based on Art. 6 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in this, as the amount of our affiliate compensation can only be determined through cookies.
For more information about Amazon's data usage, please see Amazon's privacy policy at: Amazon Privacy Policy
Sources: e-recht24.de