Data Protection

The person responsible within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), is:


Marie-Luisa Quolke, address see imprint


Your rights as a data subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details of our data protection officer provided:


Information about your data stored by us and their processing (Art. 15 GDPR),

Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),

Deletion of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),

Restriction of data processing, provided that we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),

Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and

Data portability, provided that you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.


You can contact a supervisory authority at any time with a complaint, e.g. to the competent supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or to the authority responsible for us as the responsible body.


A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html .


Collection of general information when visiting our website

Type and purpose of the 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 problem-free connection of the website,

Ensuring a smooth use of our website,

Evaluation of system security and stability as well as

to optimize our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind may be collected by us. statistically evaluated anonymously in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.


Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.


Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.


Third country transfers:

The collected data may be deleted. transferred to the following third countries:


No


The following data protection guarantees are available:


Storage period:

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the purpose of collection. This is basically the case for the data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.


If the data is stored in log files, this is the case after 14 days at the latest. Further storage is possible. In this case, the IP addresses of the users are anonymized, so that an assignment of the calling client is no longer possible.


Mandatory or required provision:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither required by law nor by contract. However, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed without the IP address. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or limited. For this reason, a contradiction is excluded.


Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.


You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory. 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

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:


Technically necessary cookies

Type and purpose of the processing:

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the calling browser can be identified even after a page change.


The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify the use of websites for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.


We need cookies for the following applications:


Legal basis and legitimate interest:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.


Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.


Third country transfers:

The collected data may be deleted. transferred to the following third countries:


Yes


The following data protection guarantees are available:


Adequacy Decision EU Commission Standard contractual clauses


Mandatory or required provision:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither required by law nor by contract. However, the service and the functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed without this data. In addition, individual services and services may not be available or limited.


Contradiction

Please read the information about your right of objection according to Art. 21 DSGVO below.


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.


For information on which providers set cookies, please refer to the information on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used listed below.


Legal basis:

The legal basis for this processing is your consent, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.


Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.


For further recipients, please refer to the information on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used listed below.


Third country transfers:

For information on this, please refer to the lists of the individual display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis providers.


Mandatory or required provision:

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 the settings of your browser (see Revocation of consent).


Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.


Revocation of consent:

You can revoke your consent at any time via our cookie consent tool.


Profiling:

To what extent we analyze the behavior of website visitors with pseudonymized user profiles, please refer to the information on the display, tracking, remarketing and web analysis technologies used listed below.


Provision of chargeable services

Type and purpose of the processing:

In order to provide paid services, we will ask for additional data, such as payment details, in order to be able to fulfill your order.


Legal basis:

The processing of the data necessary for the conclusion of the contract is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO.


Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be processors.


Storage period:

We store this data in our systems until the legal retention periods have expired. These are generally 6 or 10 years for reasons of proper accounting and tax requirements.


Mandatory or required provision:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without the provision of your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our offered content and services.


Contact form

Type and purpose of the processing:

The data entered by you will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. This requires the specification of a valid e-mail address and your name. This serves the assignment of the request and the subsequent answering of the same. The specification of further data is optional.


Legal basis:

The processing of the data entered in the contact form takes place on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).


By providing the contact form, we would like to make it easy for you to contact us. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.


If you contact us to request an offer, the data entered in the contact form will be processed to carry out pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).


Recipient:

The recipients of the data may be processors.


Storage period:

Data will be deleted no later than 6 months after processing the request.


If there is a contractual relationship, we are subject to the statutory retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and delete your data after expiry of these periods.


Mandatory or required provision:

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, Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google"), is used on this website. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of your use of the website. 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 anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand 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.


Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and under https://policies.google.com/?hl=de .


On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related 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 will be automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached takes place automatically once a month.


Revocation of consent:

You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data for this website and for this browser in the future as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.


In addition, you can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.


In addition, you can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: Browser Add On to deactivate Google Analytics.


Use of script libraries (Google Webfonts)

In order to display our content correctly and graphically appealing across all 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.


For more information about Google Web Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy /.


Use of Google Maps

On this website we use the offer of Google Maps. Google Maps is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and allows you to conveniently use the map function.For more information about data processing by Google, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy . There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection center.


Detailed instructions for managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here: https://www.dataliberation.org


By visiting the website, Google receives information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This is done regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in to, or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be assigned directly to your account.


If you do not want the assignment in your profile on Google, you must log out of Google before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for the purposes of advertising, market research and /or demand-oriented design of its websites. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have a right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.


Revocation of consent:

The provider currently does not offer any option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie Consent tool. In this case, however, you may be able to use our website. do not use it or use it only to a limited extent.


Embedded YouTube videos

We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter "YouTube"). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. YouTube will be informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.


If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.


Further information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and its 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 to protect your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy ).


Revocation of consent:

The provider currently does not offer any option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie Consent tool. In this case, however, you may be able to use our website. do not use it or use it only to a limited extent.


Google AdWords

Our website uses Google conversion tracking. The operating company of the Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an ad placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The cookie for conversion tracking 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 recognize that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected with the help of the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers will find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information that personally identifies users.


For more information about data processing by Google, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy . There you can also change your personal data protection settings in the data protection center.


Revocation of consent:

The provider currently does not offer any option for a simple opt-out or blocking of data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie Consent tool. In this case, however, you may be able to use our website. do not use it or use it only to a limited extent.


SSL encryption

In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.


Information about your right to object according to Art. 21 GDPR

Individual case-related right of objection

You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you, which is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO (data processing on the basis of a weighing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 DSGVO.


If you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.


Recipient of an objection

Marie-Luisa Quolke


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 to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy then applies to your next visit.


Questions for the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:


Marie-Luisa Quolke, Marieluisaquolke@icloud.com


The privacy policy was created with the help of activeMind AG, the experts for external data protection officers (version #2020-09-30).