Privacy

Your personal data such as name, email address, telephone number and address are processed by us only in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law and the data protection law of the European Union. The following provisions inform you about the purposes of processing, recipients, legal bases and retention periods, as well as about your rights and the controller for the processing of your data. This privacy policy relates only to our websites. If links on our pages take you to other sites, please inform yourself there about how your data is handled.

(1) Purpose of processing

The personal data you provide when contacting us is required for communication with us. You are under no obligation to contact us. Without your email address we cannot reply to you. If you send us an enquiry by email or through a contact form, we process the data received in this way in order to carry out pre-contractual measures and answer your questions about our offer.

(2) Legal basis

The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

(3) Categories of recipients

Hosting providers and email service providers for sending notifications.

(4) Retention period

We store the data required for the performance of the contract until the statutory warranty periods and, where applicable, contractual guarantee periods have expired. Data required under commercial and tax law is kept for the periods laid down by law, as a rule ten years, compare section 257 of the German Commercial Code and section 147 of the German Fiscal Code. Data processed for pre-contractual measures is deleted as soon as those measures have been carried out and it is apparent that no contract will be concluded.

(1) Data collected

When you write to us through the form we collect your name, your email address, the message and, if you provide them, the name of your business and your telephone number. Name, email address and message are required so that we can answer your enquiry, the remaining details are voluntary.

(2) Purpose of processing

We use the data collected solely to answer your enquiry and to explain our offer to you. No evaluation for advertising purposes takes place.

(3) Disclosure of data

Your personal data is not sold to third parties or passed on for advertising purposes. The message is sent as an email to our mailbox, involving only the hosting provider and the email service provider.

(4) Storage

The enquiry is not stored in a database of this site, only as a message in our mailbox.

(5) Legal basis

The processing takes place in order to carry out pre-contractual measures pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR and on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering enquiries pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

(6) Retention period

We delete the message as soon as your enquiry has been dealt with and no statutory retention obligation applies.

(7) Data security

We use technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against manipulation, loss, destruction or unauthorised access. Your data is transmitted in encrypted form over HTTPS.

(1) Purpose of processing

This website uses cookies and comparable storage technologies. Technically necessary cookies are required to ensure the basic operation of the website, for example to store your consent decision. Beyond that we use cookies for analysis purposes only if you have expressly consented. Before any processing requiring consent you receive a notice on your first visit to the website, the cookie banner, through which you can allow or refuse their use.

(2) Legal basis

The legal basis for processing by means of technically necessary cookies is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with section 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG. The legal basis for processing by means of cookies requiring consent is your consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with section 25 (1) TDDDG.

(3) Retention period

The retention period of the individual cookies depends on the provider and the purpose. You will find information on this in the cookie banner and in the following sections on the respective services.

(4) Withdrawal

You can withdraw or adjust your consent at any time with effect for the future. To do so click the "Cookie settings" button. The withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the withdrawal.

(1) Purpose of processing

To manage your consent to cookies and similar technologies we use the open source solution "vanilla-cookieconsent". When you visit the website a banner is shown through which you can consent to or refuse individual categories of cookies. The choice made is stored in a technically necessary cookie and in your browser's local storage, so that the banner does not appear again on future visits and your settings are taken into account.

(2) Legal basis

The legal basis for storing your consent decision is Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR, the fulfilment of a legal obligation to document consent, and Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in the user-friendly management of consent.

(3) Categories of recipients

No transfer to third parties takes place. The data is stored exclusively locally in your browser.

(4) Retention period

The consent decision is stored for a period of six months. After that the banner is shown again so that you can confirm or adjust your consent.

(1) Purpose of processing

Provided you have consented, we use Google Analytics 4 on this website, a web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies in order to analyse the use of the website. Among other things, information about pages visited, time spent, device and country of origin is collected. We use this information to evaluate the use of the website, compile reports on activity and improve the website.

(2) IP anonymisation

Google Analytics 4 truncates the IP address by default before it is stored. Direct attribution to you as a person is thereby ruled out.

(3) Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing is your express consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with section 25 (1) TDDDG. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future through the "Cookie settings" button.

(4) Categories of recipients and transfer to third countries

The recipient of the data is Google Ireland Limited as the controller within the EU. A transfer to third countries, in particular the USA, cannot be ruled out. For the USA there is an adequacy decision of the EU Commission, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, under which Google LLC is certified. In addition we have concluded a data processing agreement with Google pursuant to Article 28 GDPR.

(5) Retention period

The data collected by Google Analytics 4 is stored for 14 months by default and deleted automatically after that.

(6) Further information

You will find Google's privacy provisions at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Information on the terms of use of Google Analytics is available at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/en/.

1. Right of access

You may request confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data concerning you is processed by us. Where such processing takes place, you may request information from the controller about the following: the purposes for which the personal data is processed; the categories of personal data processed; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been or will be disclosed; the envisaged period for which the personal data concerning you will be stored or, if specific details are not possible, the criteria used to determine that period; the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of the personal data concerning you, of a right to restriction of processing by the controller or of a right to object to such processing; the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; all available information about the origin of the data where the personal data is not collected from the data subject; the existence of automated decision-making including profiling pursuant to Article 22 (1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject. You have the right to request information as to whether the personal data concerning you is transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. In this context you may request to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer.

2. Right to rectification

You have a right to rectification and completion towards the controller where the processed personal data concerning you is inaccurate or incomplete. The controller must carry out the rectification without delay.

3. Right to restriction of processing

Under the following conditions you may request the restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you: where you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data; where the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of its use instead; where the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or where you have objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) GDPR and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override your grounds. Where the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, such data may, apart from being stored, be processed only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State. Where the processing has been restricted under the above conditions, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.

4. Right to erasure

You may request that the controller erase the personal data concerning you without delay, and the controller is obliged to erase such data without delay where one of the following grounds applies: the personal data concerning you is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) or Article 9 (2) (a) GDPR and there is no other legal basis for the processing; you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (2) GDPR; the personal data concerning you has been processed unlawfully; the erasure of the personal data concerning you is required for compliance with a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject; the personal data concerning you was collected in relation to information society services offered pursuant to Article 8 (1) GDPR. Where the controller has made the personal data concerning you public and is obliged to erase it pursuant to Article 17 (1) GDPR, it takes reasonable steps, including of a technical nature, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, to inform controllers processing the personal data that you as the data subject have requested the erasure of all links to, or copies or replications of, that personal data. The right to erasure does not exist where the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing under Union law or the law of the Member States to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller; for reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Article 9 (2) (h) and (i) and Article 9 (3) GDPR; for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 (1) GDPR, in so far as the right to erasure is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

5. Right to information

Where you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing towards the controller, the controller is obliged to communicate that rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing to all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you has been disclosed, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You have the right towards the controller to be informed about those recipients.

6. Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to the controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit that data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data was provided, where the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Article 9 (2) (a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR and the processing is carried out by automated means. In exercising this right you further have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. The freedoms and rights of other persons must not be adversely affected thereby. The right to data portability does not apply to processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

7. Right to object

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which takes place on the basis of Article 6 (1) (e) or (f) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on those provisions. The controller then no longer processes the personal data concerning you unless it can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. Where personal data concerning you is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing; this also applies to profiling in so far as it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data concerning you will no longer be processed for those purposes. In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, you may exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

8. Right to withdraw the declaration of consent under data protection law

You have the right to withdraw your declaration of consent under data protection law at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the withdrawal.

9. Automated individual decision-making including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply where the decision is necessary for entering into or performing a contract between you and the controller, is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or is based on your explicit consent. However, such decisions must not be based on special categories of personal data under Article 9 (1) GDPR, unless Article 9 (2) (a) or (g) applies and suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests have been taken. With regard to the first and last of the cases mentioned, the controller takes suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express your point of view and to contest the decision.

10. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the GDPR. The supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged informs the complainant of the progress and the outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of a judicial remedy pursuant to Article 78 GDPR.