Privacy Policy
The person responsible within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is: Karoline Hille
Your data subject rights
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided for our data protection officer:
- Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
- Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DSGVO),
- deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 DSGVO),
- Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),
- objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
- Data portability, insofar as you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).
If you have given us consent, you can revoke this at any time with effect for the future.
You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g. the competent supervisory authority in the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the controller.
A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.
Collection of general information when visiting our website
Nature and purpose of processing:
When you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address and the like.
In particular, they are processed for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth connection setup of the website,
- ensuring the smooth use of our website,
- evaluating system security and stability, and
- to optimise our website.
We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you personally. Information of this kind is statistically evaluated anonymously by us, if necessary, in order to optimise our website and the technology behind it.
Legal basis and legitimate interest:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
Third country transfer:
The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries: Yes.
The following data protection guarantees are available:
EU Commission adequacy decision
Standard contractual clauses
Binding Corporate Rules
Storage period:
Data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. For data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session has ended.
In the case of storage of data in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Storage beyond this period is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymised so that an assignment of the calling client is no longer possible.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.
Third country transfer:
The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries: No.
The following data protection guarantees are in place:
Technically unnecessary cookies
Furthermore, we use cookies to better tailor the offer on our website to the interests of our visitors or to generally improve it on the basis of statistical evaluations.
To find out which providers use cookies, please see the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.
Legal basis:
The legal basis for these processing operations is in each case your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
For further recipients, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.
Third country transfer:
Please refer to the listings of the individual display, tracking, remarketing and web analytics providers for information on this.
Provision prescribed or required:
Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see Revocation of consent).
Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.
Withdrawal of consent:
You can withdraw your consent at any time via our cookie consent tool.
Profiling:
To what extent we analyse the behaviour of website visitors with pseudonymised user profiles, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used.
Registration on our website
Nature and purpose of processing:
For registration on our website, we require some personal data, which is transmitted to us via an input mask.
At the time of registration, the following data are also collected:
- IP address
Your registration is necessary for the provision of certain content and services on our website.
Legal basis:
The processing of the data entered during registration is based on the user’s consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).
Recipients:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as order processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
Third country transfer:
The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries: Yes.
The following data protection guarantees are available:
- EU Commission adequacy decision
- Standard contractual clauses
- Binding Corporate Rules
Storage period:
Data is only processed in this context as long as the relevant consent has been given.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our offered content.
Provision of chargeable services
Type and purpose of processing:
In order to provide chargeable services, we request additional data, such as payment details, in order to process your order.
Legal basis:
The processing of the data required for the conclusion of the contract is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO.
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are order processors, if applicable.
Third country transfer:
The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries: Yes.
The following data protection guarantees are in place:
- EU Commission adequacy decision
- Standard contractual clauses
- Binding Corporate Rules
Storage period:
We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired. These are generally 6 or 10 years for reasons of proper accounting and tax law requirements.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our offered contents and services.
Kommentarfunktion
Art und Zweck der Verarbeitung:
Wenn Nutzer Kommentare auf unserer Website hinterlassen, werden neben diesen Angaben auch der Zeitpunkt ihrer Erstellung und der zuvor durch den Websitebesucher gewählte Nutzername gespeichert. Dies dient unserer Sicherheit, da wir für widerrechtliche Inhalte auf unserer Webseite belangt werden können, auch wenn diese durch Benutzer erstellt wurden.
Rechtsgrundlage:
Die Verarbeitung der als Kommentar eingegebenen Daten erfolgt auf der Grundlage eines berechtigten Interesses (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO).
Durch Bereitstellung der Kommentarfunktion möchten wir Ihnen eine unkomplizierte Interaktion ermöglichen. Ihre gemachten Angaben werden zum Zwecke der Bearbeitung der Anfrage sowie für mögliche Anschlussfragen gespeichert.
Empfänger:
Empfänger der Daten sind ggf. Auftragsverarbeiter.
Drittlandtransfer:
Die erhobenen Daten werden ggfs. in folgende Drittländer übertragen: Nein.
Folgende Datenschutzgarantien liegen vor:
Speicherdauer:
Die Daten werden gelöscht, sobald diese für den Zweck der Erhebung nicht mehr erforderlich sind. Dies ist grundsätzlich der Fall, wenn die Kommunikation mit dem Nutzer abgeschlossen ist und das Unternehmen den Umständen entnehmen kann, dass der betroffene Sachverhalt abschließend geklärt ist. Wir behalten uns die Löschung ohne Angaben von Gründen und ohne vorherige oder nachträgliche Information vor.
Außerdem können Sie Ihren Kommentar jederzeit durch uns löschen lassen. Schreiben Sie dafür bitte eine E-Mail an den unten aufgeführten Datenschutzbeauftragten bzw. die für den Datenschutz zuständige Person und übermitteln den Link zu Ihrem Kommentar sowie zu Identifikationszwecken die bei der Erstellung des Kommentars verwendete E-Mail-Adresse.
Bereitstellung vorgeschrieben oder erforderlich:
Die Bereitstellung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten erfolgt freiwillig. Ohne die Bereitstellung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten können wir Ihnen keinen Zugang zu unserer Kommentarfunktion gewähren.
Contact form
Nature and purpose of processing:
The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address and your name. This is used for the assignment of the enquiry and the subsequent response to it. The provision of further data is optional.
Legal basis:
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).
By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the enquiry and for possible follow-up questions.
If you contact us to request a quote, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO).
Recipients:
Recipients of the data are, if applicable, order processors.
Third country transfer:
The collected data may be transferred to the following third countries: No.
The following data protection guarantees are in place:
Storage period:
Data will be deleted at the latest 6 months after processing the enquiry.
If a contractual relationship arises, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and will delete your data after these periods have expired.
Provision mandatory or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, e-mail address and the reason for the request.
Use of Google Analytics
If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis 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. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
For more information on terms of use and data protection, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.
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 data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.
Withdrawal of consent:
You can stop tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.
You may also 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 (including your IP address) by 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.
Use of script libraries (Google Web Fonts)
In order to display our content correctly and in a graphically appealing manner across browsers, we use “Google Web Fonts” from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”) on this website to display fonts.
Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Eingebettete YouTube-Videos
Auf unserer Website betten wir YouTube-Videos ein. Betreiber der entsprechenden Plugins ist die YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (nachfolgend „YouTube“). Die YouTube, LLC ist einer Tochtergesellschaft der Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (nachfolgend „Google“). Wenn Sie eine Seite mit dem YouTube-Plugin besuchen, wird eine Verbindung zu Servern von YouTube hergestellt. Dabei wird YouTube mitgeteilt, welche Seiten Sie besuchen. Wenn Sie in Ihrem YouTube-Account eingeloggt sind, kann YouTube Ihr Surfverhalten Ihnen persönlich zuzuordnen. Dies verhindern Sie, indem Sie sich vorher aus Ihrem YouTube-Account ausloggen.
Wird ein YouTube-Video gestartet, setzt der Anbieter Cookies ein, die Hinweise über das Nutzerverhalten sammeln.
Weitere Informationen zu Zweck und Umfang der Datenerhebung und ihrer Verarbeitung durch YouTube erhalten Sie in den Datenschutzerklärungen des Anbieters, Dort erhalten Sie auch weitere Informationen zu Ihren diesbezüglichen Rechten und Einstellungsmöglichkeiten zum Schutze Ihrer Privatsphäre (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
Widerruf der Einwilligung:
Vom Anbieter wird derzeit keine Möglichkeit für einen einfachen Opt-out oder ein Blockieren der Datenübertragung angeboten. Wenn Sie eine Nachverfolgung Ihrer Aktivitäten auf unserer Website verhindern wollen, widerrufen Sie bitte im Cookie-Consent-Tool Ihre Einwilligung für die entsprechende Cookie-Kategorie oder alle technisch nicht notwendigen Cookies und Datenübertragungen. In diesem Fall können Sie unsere Website jedoch ggfs. nicht oder nur eingeschränkt nutzen.
Google AdWords
Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The company operating the Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have accessed our website via an ad placed by Google, Google AdWords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google.
If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked across AdWords customers’ websites. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.
You can find more detailed information on data processing by Google in the Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection centre.
Withdrawal of consent:
No option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission is currently offered by the provider. If you wish to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers in the Cookie Consent Tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website at all or only to a limited extent.
Use of Google Remarketing
This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The operator of the Google Remarketing services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter “Google”).
The function is used to present interest-based advertisements to website visitors within the Google advertising network. A so-called “cookie” is stored in the browser of the website visitor, which makes it possible to recognise the visitor when he or she visits websites that belong to the Google advertising network. On these pages, the visitor may be presented with advertisements that relate to content that the visitor has previously accessed on websites that use Google’s remarketing function.
You can find more detailed information about data processing by Google in the Google data protection information: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection centre.
Revocation of consent:
No option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission is currently offered by the provider. If you wish to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the relevant cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transfers in the Cookie Consent Tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website at all or only to a limited extent.
SSL encryption
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 DSGVO
Individual right of objection
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data relating to you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
Recipients of an objection
Karoline Hille
Changes to 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.
