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Privacy Policy

Introduction

With the following data protection declaration we would like to inform you which types of your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as “data”) we process for which purposes and to what extent. The data protection declaration applies to all processing of personal data carried out by us, both within the scope of providing our services and in particular on our websites, in mobile applications and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as “online offer”).

The terms used are not gender-specific.

    Status: October 5, 2019

    Overview of contents

    Responsible

    Paul Freitag
    Liskow Street 26
    18059 Rostock Germany

    E-Mail address: info@freitag-fossils.com

    Telephone: +49 179 4157888

    Impressum: https://freitag-fossils.com/impressum/

      Overview of processing

      The following table summarises the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing and refers to the data subjects.

      Types of data processed

      • Environmental data (e.g. names, addresses).
      • content data (e.g. text entries, photographs, videos).
      • Contact details (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers).
      • Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
      • Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times).
      • contract data (for example, contract object, term, customer category).
      • Payment data (for example, bank details, invoices, payment history).

      Categories of persons affected

      • Business and contractual partners.
      • Interested parties.
      • Communication partner.
      • Customers.
      • users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).

      Purposes of processing

      • Provision of our online services and user friendliness.
      • visit action evaluation.
      • Office and organisational procedures.
      • Content Delivery Network (CDN).
      • Direct marketing (e.g. by e-mail or post).
      • Feedback (e.g. collecting feedback via the online form).
      • Interest-based and behavioral marketing.
      • Contact requests and communication.
      • Conversion measurement (measurement of the effectiveness of marketing measures).
      • Profiling (creating user profiles).
      • Remarketing.
      • Range measurement (e.g. access statistics, recognition of returning visitors).
      • Security measures.
      • Tracking (e.g. interest/behaviour-related profiling, use of cookies).
      • Contractual services and support.
      • Administration and answering of inquiries.

      Applicable legal bases

      In the following we inform you about the legal basis of the Data Protection Ordinance (DSGVO), on the basis of which we process personal data. Please note that in addition to the provisions of the DSGVO, the national data protection regulations in your or our country of residence and domicile may apply.

      • A Consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO) – The data subject has given his/her consent to the processing of his/her personal data for one or more specific purposes.
      • Contractual performance and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b. DSGVO) – Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject.
      • Legal obligation (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c. DSGVO) – The processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
      • Protection of vital interests (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. d. DSGVO) – Processing is necessary in order to protect vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.
      • Goodful interests (Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. 1 f. DSGVO) – The processing is necessary for the protection of theood controller’s or a third party’s rightful interests, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, prevail.

      National data protection regulations in Germany: In addition to the data protection regulations of the Basic Data Protection Regulation, national regulations apply to data protection in Germany. In particular, this includes the Act on Protection against Misuse of Personal Data in Data Processing (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG). In particular, the BDSG contains special provisions on the right of information, the right of deletion, the right of objection, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes and transmission as well as automated decision-making in individual cases, including profiling. Furthermore, it regulates data processing for the purposes of the employment relationship (§ 26 BDSG), in particular with regard to the establishment, execution or termination of employment relationships as well as the consent of employees. Furthermore, data protection laws of the individual federal states may be applied.

        Security measures

        We shall take appropriate technical and organisational measures in accordance with the statutory requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the nature, extent, circumstances and purposes of the processing as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, in order to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

        Measures shall include, in particular, safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to, and access to, input, disclosure, securing and separation of data. In addition, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subject rights, the deletion of data and responses to data breaches. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account as early as the development or selection of hardware, software and procedures in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings.

        SSL encryption (https): In order to protect your data transmitted via our online offer, we use SSL encryption. You can recognize such encrypted connections by the prefix https:// in the address bar of your browser.

        Transmission and disclosure of personal data

        As part of our processing of personal data, it may happen that the data is transferred to other offices, companies, legally independent organisational units or persons or that it is disclosed to them. Recipients of this data may include, for example, payment institutions within the framework of payment transactions, service providers commissioned with IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases we observe the legal requirements and in particular conclude corresponding contracts or agreements with the recipients of your data which serve to protect your data.

        Data processing in third countries

        If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA)) or the processing takes place in the context of the use of services of third parties or the disclosure or transfer of data to other persons, bodies or companies, this is only done in accordance with the legal requirements.

        Subject to express consent or contractual or legally required transfer, we will process or have processed the data only in third countries with a recognized level of data protection, which includes US processors certified under the “Privacy Shield”, or on the basis of special guarantees, such as contractual obligations through so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission, the existence of certifications or binding internal data protection regulations (Art. 44 to 49 DSGVO, information page of the EU Commission: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_de ).

        Use of Cookies

        Cookies” are small files that are stored on the user’s devices. Cookies can be used to store different data. The information can include, for example, the language settings on a website, the login status, a shopping cart or the location where a video was viewed.

        As a rule, cookies are also used if a user’s interests or behaviour (e.g. viewing certain content, use of functions, etc.) are stored on individual web pages in a user profile. Such profiles are used, for example, to display content to users that corresponds to their potential interests. This procedure is also referred to as “tracking”, i.e. tracking the potential interests of users. The term “cookies” also includes other technologies that perform the same functions as cookies (e.g. when user information is stored using pseudonymous online identifiers, also referred to as “user IDs”).

        If we use cookies or tracking technologies, we will inform you separately in our privacy policy.

        Information on legal bases: The legal basis on which we process your personal data with the aid of cookies depends on whether we ask you for your consent. If this is the case and you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for processing your data is your declared consent. Otherwise, the data processed with the aid of cookies will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. in a business operation of our online service and its improvement) or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations.

        General information on revocation and objection (opt-out): Irrespective of whether processing is based on consent or legal permission, you have the possibility at any time to revoke a consent given or to object to the processing of your data using cookie technologies (collectively referred to as “opt-out”).

        You can initially explain your objection using your browser settings, e.g. by deactivating the use of cookies (which may also restrict the functionality of our online service).

        An objection to the use of cookies for online marketing purposes may also be raised through a variety of services, particularly in the case of tracking, via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ or generally on http://optout.aboutads.info.

        Processing of cookie data on the basis of consent: Before we process or have processed data within the framework of the use of cookies, we ask the user for consent that can be revoked at any time. Before the consent has not been given, we may use cookies that are necessary for the operation of our online offer. Their use is based on our interest and the user’s interest in the expected functionality of our online service.

        • Processed data types: Usage data (e.g. visited websites, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
        • Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Commercial and business services

        We process data of our contractual and business partners, e.g. customers and interested parties (collectively referred to as “contractual partners”) within the framework of contractual and comparable legal relationships as well as associated measures and within the framework of communication with the contractual partners (or pre-contractual), e.g. in order to answer inquiries.

        We process this data in order to fulfil our contractual obligations, to safeguard our rights and for the purposes of the administrative tasks associated with this data and the entrepreneurial organisation. Within the framework of the applicable law, we only pass on the data of the contractual partners to third parties insofar as this is necessary for the aforementioned purposes or for the fulfilment of legal obligations or is carried out with the consent of the contractual partners (e.g. to involved telecommunications, transport and other auxiliary services as well as subcontractors, banks, tax and legal advisors, payment service providers or tax authorities). The contractual partners will be informed about further forms of processing, e.g. for marketing purposes, within the framework of this data protection declaration.

        Which data are necessary for the aforementioned purposes, we inform the contracting partners before or in the context of the data collection, e.g. in on-line forms, by special marking (e.g. colors) and/or symbols (e.g. asterisks or the like), or personally.

        We delete the data after expiry of statutory warranty and comparable obligations, i.e., in principle after expiry of 4 years, unless the data are stored in a customer account, e.g., as long as they must be kept for legal reasons of archiving (e.g. for tax purposes usually 10 years). Data disclosed to us by the contractual partner within the framework of an order shall be deleted in accordance with the specifications of the order, in principle after the end of the order.

        If we use third-party providers or platforms to provide our services, the terms and conditions and data protection notices of the respective third-party providers or platforms shall apply in the relationship between the users and the providers.

        Economic analysis and market research: For economic reasons and in order to be able to recognise market trends, wishes of contractual partners and users, we analyse the data available to us on business transactions, contracts, enquiries, etc., whereby contractual partners, interested parties, customers, visitors and users of our online offer may fall into the group of persons concerned.

        The analyses are carried out for the purpose of business evaluations, marketing and market research (for example, to determine customer groups with different characteristics). If available, we can take into account the profiles of registered users including their details, e.g. on services used. The analyses serve us alone and are not disclosed externally unless they are anonymous analyses with summarised, i.e. anonymised values. Furthermore, we respect the privacy of the users and process the data for analysis purposes as pseudonymously as possible and, if feasible, anonymously (e.g. as combined data).

        Shop and E-Commerce: We process the data of our customers in order to enable them to select, purchase or order the selected products, goods and related services, as well as their payment and delivery, or execution.

        The required details are identified as such within the framework of the ordering or comparable purchase process and include the details required for delivery or provision and invoicing as well as contact information in order to be able to hold any consultation.

        Craft performance: We process the data of our customers and clients (hereinafter uniformly referred to as “Customers”) in order to enable them to select, acquire or commission the selected services or works as well as associated activities and to pay for and deliver them or carry them out.

        The required details are identified as such within the framework of the conclusion of the order, order or comparable contract and include the details required for delivery and invoicing as well as contact information in order to be able to hold any consultations.

        • Processed data types: Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices, payment history), contact data (e.g. e-mail, telephone numbers), contract data (e.g.e.g. subject of contract, duration, customer category), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Interested parties, business and contractual partners, customers.
        • Purposes of processing: Contractual services, contact enquiries and communication, office and organisational procedures, administration and answering of enquiries, evaluation of visits, marketing based on interests and behaviour, profiling (creation of user profiles), security measures.
        • Legal basis:Fulfilment of contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b. DSGVO), legal obligation (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c. DSGVO), legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Payment service provider

        Within the framework of contractual and other legal relationships, due to legal obligations or otherwise on the basis of our legitimate interests, we offer the persons concerned efficient and secure payment options and use other payment service providers in addition to banks and credit institutions (collectively “payment service providers”).

        The data processed by the payment service providers includes inventory data, such as name and address, bank data, such as account or credit card numbers, passwords, TANs and checksums, as well as contract, total and recipient details. The information is required to complete the transactions. However, the data entered will only be processed and stored by the payment service providers. This means that we do not receive any account- or credit card-related information, but only information with confirmation or negative information about the payment. The data may be transmitted by payment service providers to credit reference agencies. The purpose of this transmission is to check identity and creditworthiness. In this regard, we refer to the General Terms and Conditions and the data protection information of the payment service providers.

        Payment transactions are subject to the terms and conditions and data protection notices of the respective payment service providers, which can be accessed within the respective websites or transaction applications. We also refer to these for the purpose of further information and assertion of revocation, information and other rights affected.

        • Processed data types: Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices, payment history), contract data (e.g. subject of contract, duration, customer category), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Customers, prospects.
        • Purposes of Processing: Contractual Services and Service.
        • Legal basis: Performance of contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b. DSGVO), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Services and service providers in use:

        Blogs and publication media

        We use blogs or comparable means of online communication and publication (hereinafter “publication medium”). Readers’ data will only be processed for the purposes of the publication medium to the extent necessary for its presentation and communication between authors and readers or for security reasons. For the rest, we refer to the information on the processing of visitors to our publication medium in the context of this data protection notice.

        Comments and posts: When users leave comments or other contributions, their IP addresses may be stored based on our legitimate interests. This is done for our safety, if someone leaves illegal contents (insults, forbidden political propaganda etc.) in comments and contributions. In this case, we ourselves can be prosecuted for the comment or contribution and are therefore interested in the author’s identity.

        Furthermore, we reserve the right to process user data for the purpose of spam detection on the basis of our legitimate interests.

        On the same legal basis, in the case of surveys, we reserve the right to store the IP addresses of users for the duration of the surveys and to use cookies in order to avoid multiple votes.

        The personal information provided in the course of comments and contributions, any contact and website information as well as the content information will be stored permanently by us until the user objects.

        • Processed data types: Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, phone numbers), content data (e.g. text input, photographs, videos), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
        • Purposes of processing: Contractual services and service, feedback (e.g. collection of feedback via online form), security measures, administration and answering of inquiries.
        • Legal basis:Fulfilment of contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. b. DSGVO), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. f. DSGVO), Consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO), Protection of vital interests (Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. d. DSGVO).

        Contacting

        When contacting us (e.g. via contact form, e-mail, telephone or via social media), the data of the inquiring persons are processed insofar as this is necessary to answer the contact enquiries and any requested measures.

        The response to contact enquiries within the framework of contractual or pre-contractual relationships is made in order to fulfil our contractual obligations or to respond to (pre)contractual enquiries and otherwise on the basis of the legitimate interests in responding to the enquiries.

        • Processed data types: Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, phone numbers), content data (e.g. text input, photographs, videos).
        • Persons affected: Communication partner.
        • Purposes of processing: Contact requests and communication.
        • Legal basis: Performance of contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b. DSGVO), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Provision of the online offer and web hosting

        In order to provide our online services securely and efficiently, we use the services of one or more web hosting providers from whose servers (or servers they manage) the online services can be accessed. For these purposes, we may use infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, as well as security and technical maintenance services.

        The data processed within the framework of the provision of the hosting offer may include all information relating to the users of our online offer that is collected within the scope of use and communication. This regularly includes the IP address, which is necessary to be able to deliver the contents of online offers to browsers, and all entries made within our online offer or from websites.

        E-mail and -hosting: The web hosting services we use also include sending, receiving and storing e-mails. For these purposes, the addresses of the recipients and senders as well as further information regarding the sending of e-mails (e.g. the providers involved) and the contents of the respective e-mails are processed. The above data may also be processed for SPAM detection purposes. Please note that e-mails on the Internet are generally not sent in encrypted form. As a rule, e-mails are encrypted during transport, but not on the servers from which they are sent and received (unless a so-called end-to-end encryption method is used). We can therefore accept no responsibility for the transmission path of e-mails between the sender and reception on our server.

        Collection of access data and log files: We ourselves (or our web hosting provider) collect data on each access to the server (so-called server log files). Server log files may include the address and name of the web pages and files accessed, the date and time of access, data volumes transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page) and, as a rule, IP addresses and the requesting provider.

        The server log files can be used for security purposes, e.g. to avoid overloading the servers (especially in the case of abusive attacks, so-called DDoS attacks) and to ensure the utilization of the servers and their stability.

        Content-Delivery-Network: We are using a “Content-Delivery-Network” (CDN). A CDN is a service with the help of which the contents of an online offer, in particular large media files such as graphics or program scripts, can be delivered faster and more securely with the help of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet.

        • Processed data types: Content data (e.g. text input, photographs, videos), usage data (e.g. web pages visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
        • Purposes of processing: Content Delivery Network (CDN).
        • Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Web Analysis and Optimization

        Web analysis (also referred to as “range measurement”) serves to evaluate the visitor flows of our online offering and may include behavior, interests or demographic information about visitors, such as age or gender, as pseudonymous values. With the help of the range analysis we can, for example, recognize at which time our online offer or its functions or contents are most frequently used or invite for reuse. We can also determine which areas require optimization.

        In addition to web analysis, we can also use test procedures, e.g. to test and optimize different versions of our online offering or its components.

        For these purposes, so-called user profiles can be created and stored in a file (so-called “cookie”) or similar procedures with the same purpose can be used. This information may include, for example, content viewed, websites visited and elements and technical data used there, such as the browser used, the computer system used and information on times of use. If users have consented to the collection of their location data, these may also be processed depending on the provider.

        The IP addresses of the users are also stored. However, we use an IP masking procedure (i.e. pseudonymisation by shortening the IP address) to protect the user. In general, within the framework of web analysis, A/B testing and optimisation, no user data (such as e-mail addresses or names) is stored, but pseudonyms. This means that both we and the providers of the software used do not know the actual identity of the users, but only the data stored in their profiles for the purposes of the respective procedures.

        Information on legal bases: If we ask the users for their consent to the use of third party providers, the legal basis of the processing of data is consent. Otherwise, user data will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economic and recipient friendly services). In this context, we would also like to draw your attention to the information on the use of cookies in this data protection declaration.

        • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
        • Purposes of processing:Range measurement (e.g. access statistics, recognition of returning visitors), tracking (e.g. interest/behavioural profiling, use of cookies), visitor action evaluation, profiling (creation of user profiles).
        • Security measures: IP masking (pseudonymization of the IP address).
        • Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Online marketing

        We process personal data for the purposes of online marketing, which may include in particular the marketing of advertising space or the display of advertising and other content (collectively referred to as “Content”) based on the potential interests of users and the measurement of their effectiveness.

        For these purposes, so-called user profiles are created and stored in a file (so-called “cookie”) or similar procedures are used, by means of which the user information relevant for the presentation of the aforementioned content is stored. This information may include, for example, content viewed, websites visited, online networks used, but also communication partners and technical information such as the browser used, the computer system used and information on times of use. If users have consented to the collection of their location data, these can also be processed.

        The IP addresses of the users are also stored. However, we use available IP masking methods (i.e. pseudonymisation by shortening the IP address) to protect the user. In general, within the framework of the online marketing procedure, no plain data of the users (such as e-mail addresses or names) is stored, but pseudonyms. This means that we as well as the providers of online marketing procedures do not know the actual identity of the users, but only the information stored in their profiles.

        The information in the profiles is usually stored in the cookies or by means of similar procedures. These cookies can later be generally used on other websites that use the same online marketing process, read out and analyzed for content display purposes as well as supplemented with other data and stored on the server of the online marketing process provider.

        Exceptionally, plain data can be assigned to the profiles. This is the case, for example, if the users are members of a social network whose online marketing procedures we use and the network links the profiles of the users in the aforementioned information. We kindly ask you to note that users can make additional agreements with the providers, e.g. by consenting within the scope of registration.

        As a matter of principle, we only gain access to summarised information about the success of our advertisements. However, within the framework of so-called conversion measurements, we can check which of our online marketing procedures have led to a so-called conversion, i.e. to the conclusion of a contract with us, for example. The conversion measurement is used alone to analyze the success of our marketing measures.

        Information on legal bases: If we ask the users for their consent to the use of third party providers, the legal basis of the processing of data is consent. Otherwise, user data will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economic and recipient friendly services). In this context, we would also like to draw your attention to the information on the use of cookies in this data protection declaration.

        • Processed data types: Usage data (e.g. visited websites, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services), interested parties.
        • Purposes of processing: Tracking (e.g. interest/behavioral profiling, use of cookies), remarketing, visit action evaluation, interest based and behavioral marketing, profiling (creation of user profiles), conversion measurement (measurement of the effectiveness of marketing measures), range measurement (e.g. access statistics, recognition of returning visitors).
        • Security measures: IP masking (pseudonymization of the IP address).
        • Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO), Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO).
        • Opposition possibility (Opt-Out): We refer to the data protection references of the respective providers and the opposition possibilities indicated to the providers (so-called “Opt-Out”). If no explicit opt-out option has been specified, it is possible to deactivate cookies in the settings of your browser. However, this may restrict the functions of our online offer. We therefore recommend the following additional opt-out options, which are offered in summary for each area:a) Europe: https://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
          b) Kanada: https://www.youradchoices.ca/choices.
          c) USA: https://www.aboutads.info/choices.
          d) Cross-area: http://optout.aboutads.info.

        Services and service providers in use:

        Presences in social networks

        We maintain online presences within social networks in order to communicate with the users active there or to offer information about us there.

        We would like to point out that user data may be processed outside the European Union. This may entail risks for users, e.g. by making it more difficult to enforce users’ rights. With regard to US providers that are certified under the Privacy Shield or offer comparable guarantees of a secure level of data protection, we would like to point out that by doing so they commit themselves to complying with EU data protection standards.

        In addition, user data is usually processed within social networks for market research and advertising purposes. For example, user profiles can be created on the basis of user behaviour and the resulting interests of users. The user profiles can in turn be used, for example, to place advertisements within and outside the networks which are presumed to correspond to the interests of the users. For these purposes, cookies are usually stored on the user’s computer, in which the user’s usage behaviour and interests are stored. Furthermore, data may be stored in the user profiles independently of the devices used by the users (especially if the users are members of the respective platforms and are logged in to them).

        For a detailed description of the respective forms of processing and the possibilities for objection (opt-out), we refer to the data protection declarations and information of the operators of the respective networks.

        Also in the case of requests for information and the assertion of rights of data subjects, we point out that these can be asserted most effectively with the providers. Only the providers have access to the data of the users and can directly take appropriate measures and provide information. If you still need help, please do not hesitate to contact us.

        • Processed data types: Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses), contact data (e.g. e-mail, phone numbers), content data (e.g. text input, photographs, videos), usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
        • Purposes of processing: Contact requests and communication, tracking (e.g. interest/behavioural profiling, use of cookies), remarketing, range measurement (e.g. access statistics, recognition of returning visitors).
        • Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Services and service providers in use:

        Plugins and embedded functions and content

        We include in our online offer functional and content elements that are obtained from the servers of their respective providers (hereinafter referred to as “third-party providers”). These may, for example, be graphics, videos or social media buttons as well as contributions (hereinafter uniformly referred to as “Content”).

        The integration always presupposes that the third party providers of this content process the IP address of the user, since they could not send the content to their browser without the IP address. The IP address is therefore required for the presentation of these contents or functions. We strive to use only those contents, whose respective offerers use the IP address only for the distribution of the contents. Third parties may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. Pixel tags” can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user’s device and may contain technical information about the browser and operating system, websites to be referred to, visiting times and other information about the use of our online services, as well as may be linked to such information from other sources.

        Information on legal bases: If we ask the users for their consent to the use of third party providers, the legal basis of the processing of data is consent. Otherwise, user data will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economic and recipient friendly services). In this context, we would also like to draw your attention to the information on the use of cookies in this data protection declaration.

        • Processed data types: Usage data (e.g. visited websites, interest in content, access times), meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
        • Affected persons: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
        • Purposes of processing: Provision of our online services and user friendliness, contractual services and service.
        • Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. DSGVO).

        Services and service providers in use:

        Deletion of data

        The data processed by us will be deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions as soon as their consent permitted for processing is revoked or other permissions lapse (e.g. if the purpose of processing this data has lapsed or it is not necessary for the purpose).

        If the data are not deleted because they are required for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing is limited to these purposes. This means that the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be stored for commercial or tax reasons or whose storage is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person.

        Further information on the deletion of personal data can also be found in the individual data protection notices of this data protection declaration.

          Change and update of the privacy policy

          We ask you to inform yourself regularly about the content of our data protection declaration. We will adapt the data protection declaration as soon as changes in the data processing we carry out make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require your cooperation (e.g. consent) or other individual notification.

          Rights of the persons concerned

          Under the DSGVO, they are entitled to various rights as affected parties, which result in particular from Articles 15 to 18 and 21 of the DS Block Exemption Regulation:

          • 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 on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. e or f DSGVO; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If the personal data concerning you are processed for the purpose of direct advertising, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of the personal data concerning you for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is connected with such direct advertising.
          • Right of revocation for consents: You have the right to revoke consents given at any time.
          • Right of access: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data in question will be processed and to request access to this data as well as further information and copying of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.
          • Correction right: You have the right, in accordance with the law, to request the completion of the data concerning you or the correction of the incorrect data concerning you.
          • Right to deletion and limitation of processing: You have the right, in accordance with the statutory provisions, to demand that data concerning you be deleted immediately, or alternatively, in accordance with the statutory provisions, to demand limitation of data processing.
          • Right to Data Transferability: You have the right to receive the data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format in accordance with the legal requirements, or to request its transfer to another responsible person.
          • Complaint to the supervisory authority: In accordance with the statutory provisions, you also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State in which you habitually reside, your place of work or the place where the alleged infringement was committed, if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates the DSGVO.

          Terms definitions

          This section provides an overview of the terms used in this privacy statement. Many of the terms are taken from the law and defined above all in Art. 4 DSGVO. The legal definitions are binding. The following explanations, on the other hand, are intended above all for the sake of understanding. The terms are sorted alphabetically.

          • Visit Promotion Evaluation: “Conversion Tracking” refers to a procedure by which the effectiveness of marketing measures can be determined. As a rule, a cookie is stored on the devices of the users within the websites on which the marketing measures take place and then called up again on the target website. For example, we can see whether the ads we placed on other websites were successful).
          • Content Delivery Network (CDN): A “Content Delivery Network” (CDN) is a service that can be used to deliver online content, in particular large media files such as graphics or program scripts, faster and more securely with the help of regionally distributed servers connected via the Internet.
          • IP-Masking: “IP-Masking” is a method by which the last octet, i.e. the last two numbers of an IP address, is deleted so that the IP address can no longer be used to uniquely identify a person. IP masking is therefore a means of pseudonymising processing methods, particularly in online marketing

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          • Interest-based and behavioural marketing: Interest-based and/or behavioural marketing is the term used when potential interests of users in advertisements and other content are defined as precisely as possible. This is done on the basis of information on their previous behaviour (e.g. visiting certain websites and staying on them, purchasing behaviour or interaction with other users), which is stored in a so-called profile. Cookies are generally used for these purposes.
          • Conversion measurement: Conversion measurement is a method by which the effectiveness of marketing measures can be determined. As a rule, a cookie is stored on the devices of the users within the websites on which the marketing measures take place and then called up again on the target website. For example, we can track whether the ads we placed on other websites were successful.
          • Personal data: “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is any person who, directly or indirectly, in particular by attribution to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g.B. cookie) or to one or more specific characteristics that are an expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
          • Profiling: “Profiling” means any automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of such personal data to analyse, evaluate or predict certain personal aspects relating to an individual (including, depending on the type of profiling, information relating to age, gender, location and movement data, interaction with websites and their content, shopping behaviour, social interactions with other people).B. the interests in certain content or products, the click behaviour on a website or the location). Cookies and web beacons are frequently used for profiling purposes.
          • Range measurement: Range measurement (also referred to as web analytics) is used to evaluate the visitor flows of an online offer and can include the behaviour or interests of visitors in certain information, such as the content of websites. With the help of reach analysis, website owners can recognize, for example, at what time visitors visit their website and what content they are interested in. This allows them, for example, to better adapt the content of the website to the needs of their visitors. Pseudonymous cookies and web beacons are often used for the purpose of range analysis in order to recognise returning visitors and thus obtain more precise analyses of the use of an online offer.
          • Remarketing: “Remarketing” or “Retargeting” is the term used, for example, to indicate for advertising purposes which products a user is interested in on a website in order to remind the user of these products on other websites, e.g. in advertisements.
          • Tracking: “Tracking” is the term used when the behaviour of users can be traced across several online offers. As a rule, with regard to the online offers used, behavioural and interest information is stored in cookies or on the servers of the tracking technology providers (so-called profiling). This information can then be used, for example, to display advertisements to users that are likely to match their interests.
          • Responsible person: A “responsible person” is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
          • Processing: “Processing” means any operation carried out with or without the aid of automated procedures or any such series of operations relating to personal data. The term reaches far and covers practically every handling of data, be it collection, evaluation, storage, transmission or deletion.

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