pri­va­cy policy

Pri­va­cy Policy

1. An over­view of data protection

Gene­ral Information

The fol­lo­wing infor­ma­ti­on will pro­vi­de you with an easy to navi­ga­te over­view of what will hap­pen with your per­so­nal data when you visit this web­site. The term “per­so­nal data” com­pri­ses all data that can be used to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy you. For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, plea­se con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recor­ding on this website

Who is the respon­si­ble par­ty for the recor­ding of data on this web­site (i.e., the “con­trol­ler”)?

The data on this web­site is pro­ces­sed by the ope­ra­tor of the web­site, who­se cont­act infor­ma­ti­on is available under sec­tion “Infor­ma­ti­on about the respon­si­ble par­ty (refer­red to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)” in this Pri­va­cy Policy.

How do we record your data?

We coll­ect your data as a result of your sha­ring of your data with us. This may, for ins­tance be infor­ma­ti­on you enter into our cont­act form.

Other data shall be recor­ded by our IT sys­tems auto­ma­ti­cal­ly or after you con­sent to its recor­ding during your web­site visit. This data com­pri­ses pri­ma­ri­ly tech­ni­cal infor­ma­ti­on (e.g., web brow­ser, ope­ra­ting sys­tem, or time the site was acces­sed). This infor­ma­ti­on is recor­ded auto­ma­ti­cal­ly when you access this website.

What are the pur­po­ses we use your data for?

A por­ti­on of the infor­ma­ti­on is gene­ra­ted to gua­ran­tee the error free pro­vi­si­on of the web­site. Other data may be used to ana­ly­ze your user pat­terns. If con­tracts can be con­cluded or initia­ted via the web­site, the trans­mit­ted data will also be pro­ces­sed for con­tract offers, orders or other order enquiries.

What rights do you have as far as your infor­ma­ti­on is concerned?

You have the right to recei­ve infor­ma­ti­on about the source, reci­pi­ents, and pur­po­ses of your archi­ved per­so­nal data at any time wit­hout having to pay a fee for such dis­clo­sures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rec­ti­fied or era­di­ca­ted. If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, you have the opti­on to revo­ke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future data pro­ces­sing. Moreo­ver, you have the right to demand that the pro­ces­sing of your data be rest­ric­ted under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances. Fur­ther­mo­re, you have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sing agency.

Plea­se do not hesi­ta­te to cont­act us at any time if you have ques­ti­ons about this or any other data pro­tec­tion rela­ted issues.

Ana­ly­sis tools and tools pro­vi­ded by third parties

The­re is a pos­si­bi­li­ty that your brow­sing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cal­ly ana­ly­zed when your visit this web­site. Such ana­ly­ses are per­for­med pri­ma­ri­ly with what we refer to as ana­ly­sis programs.

For detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on about the­se ana­ly­sis pro­grams plea­se con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on below.

2. Hos­ting and Con­tent Deli­very Net­works (CDN)

We are hos­ting the con­tent of our web­site at the fol­lo­wing provider:

Exter­nal Hosting

This web­site is hos­ted extern­al­ly. Per­so­nal data coll­ec­ted on this web­site are stored on the ser­vers of the host. The­se may include, but are not limi­t­ed to, IP addres­ses, cont­act requests, meta­da­ta and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons, con­tract infor­ma­ti­on, cont­act infor­ma­ti­on, names, web page access, and other data gene­ra­ted through a web site.

The exter­nal hos­ting ser­ves the pur­po­se of ful­fil­ling the con­tract with our poten­ti­al and exis­ting cus­to­mers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the inte­rest of secu­re, fast, and effi­ci­ent pro­vi­si­on of our online ser­vices by a pro­fes­sio­nal pro­vi­der (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Our host(s) will only pro­cess your data to the ext­ent neces­sa­ry to ful­fil its per­for­mance obli­ga­ti­ons and to fol­low our ins­truc­tions with respect to such data.

We are using the fol­lo­wing host(s):

net­cup GmbH
Emmy-Noe­ther-Stra­ße 10
D‑76131 Karls­ru­he

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the abo­ve-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­va­cy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

Cloud­fla­re

We use the “Cloud­fla­re” ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Cloud­fla­re Inc., 101 Town­send St., San Fran­cis­co, CA 94107, USA. (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “Cloud­fla­re”).

Cloud­fla­re offers a con­tent deli­very net­work with DNS that is available world­wi­de. As a result, the infor­ma­ti­on trans­fer that occurs bet­ween your brow­ser and our web­site is tech­ni­cal­ly rou­ted via Cloudflare’s net­work. This enables Cloud­fla­re to ana­ly­ze data tran­sac­tions bet­ween your brow­ser and our web­site and to work as a fil­ter bet­ween our ser­vers and poten­ti­al­ly mali­cious data traf­fic from the Inter­net. In this con­text, Cloud­fla­re may also use coo­kies or other tech­no­lo­gies deploy­ed to reco­gni­ze Inter­net users, which shall, howe­ver, only be used for the her­ein descri­bed purpose.

The use of Cloud­fla­re is based on our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in a pro­vi­si­on of our web­site offe­rings that is as error free and secu­re as pos­si­ble (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details and fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on on secu­ri­ty and data pro­tec­tion at Cloud­fla­re can be found here: https://​www​.cloud​fla​re​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​p​o​l​i​cy/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​5​666.

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the abo­ve-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­va­cy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

3. Gene­ral infor­ma­ti­on and man­da­to­ry information

Data pro­tec­tion

The ope­ra­tors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­so­nal data very serious­ly. Hence, we hand­le your per­so­nal data as con­fi­den­ti­al infor­ma­ti­on and in com­pli­ance with the sta­tu­to­ry data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons and this Data Pro­tec­tion Declaration.

When­ever you use this web­site, a varie­ty of per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on will be coll­ec­ted. Per­so­nal data com­pri­ses data that can be used to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy you. This Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­ti­on explains which data we coll­ect as well as the pur­po­ses we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which pur­po­se the infor­ma­ti­on is collected.

We here­wi­th advi­se you that the trans­mis­si­on of data via the Inter­net (i.e., through e‑mail com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons) may be pro­ne to secu­ri­ty gaps. It is not pos­si­ble to com­ple­te­ly pro­tect data against third-par­ty access.

Infor­ma­ti­on about the respon­si­ble par­ty (refer­red to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)

The data pro­ces­sing con­trol­ler on this web­site is:

FSP Media e.U.
Guten­berg­gas­se 1/8
1070 Wien

Pho­ne: +43 660 6985400
E‑mail: office@​fsp-​media.​com

The con­trol­ler is the natu­ral per­son or legal enti­ty that sin­gle-han­dedly or joint­ly with others makes decis­i­ons as to the pur­po­ses of and resour­ces for the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data (e.g., names, e‑mail addres­ses, etc.).

Sto­rage duration

Unless a more spe­ci­fic sto­rage peri­od has been spe­ci­fied in this pri­va­cy poli­cy, your per­so­nal data will remain with us until the pur­po­se for which it was coll­ec­ted no lon­ger appli­es. If you assert a jus­ti­fied request for dele­ti­on or revo­ke your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing, your data will be dele­ted, unless we have other legal­ly per­mis­si­ble reasons for sto­ring your per­so­nal data (e.g., tax or com­mer­cial law reten­ti­on peri­ods); in the lat­ter case, the dele­ti­on will take place after the­se reasons cea­se to apply.

Gene­ral infor­ma­ti­on on the legal basis for the data pro­ces­sing on this website

If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, we pro­cess your per­so­nal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if spe­cial cate­go­ries of data are pro­ces­sed accor­ding to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of expli­cit con­sent to the trans­fer of per­so­nal data to third count­ries, the data pro­ces­sing is also based on Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have con­sen­ted to the sto­rage of coo­kies or to the access to infor­ma­ti­on in your end device (e.g., via device fin­ger­prin­ting), the data pro­ces­sing is addi­tio­nal­ly based on § 25 (1) TDDDG. The con­sent can be revo­ked at any time. If your data is requi­red for the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or for the imple­men­ta­ti­on of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res, we pro­cess your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Fur­ther­mo­re, if your data is requi­red for the ful­fill­ment of a legal obli­ga­ti­on, we pro­cess it on the basis of Art. 6(1)© GDPR. Fur­ther­mo­re, the data pro­ces­sing may be car­ri­ed out on the basis of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest accor­ding to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Infor­ma­ti­on on the rele­vant legal basis in each indi­vi­du­al case is pro­vi­ded in the fol­lo­wing para­graphs of this pri­va­cy policy.

Reci­pi­ents of per­so­nal data

In the scope of our busi­ness acti­vi­ties, we coope­ra­te with various exter­nal par­ties. In some cases, this also requi­res the trans­fer of per­so­nal data to the­se exter­nal par­ties. We only dis­c­lo­se per­so­nal data to exter­nal par­ties if this is requi­red as part of the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract, if we are legal­ly obli­ga­ted to do so (e.g., dis­clo­sure of data to tax aut­ho­ri­ties), if we have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the dis­clo­sure pur­su­ant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, or if ano­ther legal basis per­mits the dis­clo­sure of this data. When using pro­ces­sors, we only dis­c­lo­se per­so­nal data of our cus­to­mers on the basis of a valid con­tract on data pro­ces­sing. In the case of joint pro­ces­sing, a joint pro­ces­sing agree­ment is concluded.

Revo­ca­ti­on of your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of data

A wide ran­ge of data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions are pos­si­ble only sub­ject to your express con­sent. You can also revo­ke at any time any con­sent you have alre­a­dy given us. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to the lawful­ness of any data coll­ec­tion that occur­red pri­or to your revocation.

Right to object to the coll­ec­tion of data in spe­cial cases; right to object to direct adver­ti­sing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PRO­CES­SED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARI­SING FROM YOUR UNI­QUE SITUA­TI­ON. THIS ALSO APPLI­ES TO ANY PRO­FIL­ING BASED ON THE­SE PRO­VI­SI­ONS. TO DETER­MI­NE THE LEGAL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PRO­CES­SING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEA­SE CON­SULT THIS DATA PRO­TEC­TION DECLA­RA­TI­ON. IF YOU LOG AN OBJEC­TION, WE WILL NO LON­GER PRO­CESS YOUR AFFEC­TED PER­SO­NAL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POSI­TI­ON TO PRE­SENT COM­PEL­LING PRO­TEC­TION WORT­HY GROUNDS FOR THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUT­WEIGH YOUR INTE­RESTS, RIGHTS AND FREE­DOMS OR IF THE PUR­PO­SE OF THE PRO­CES­SING IS THE CLAI­MING, EXER­CIS­ING OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL ENTIT­LE­MENTS (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA IS BEING PRO­CES­SED IN ORDER TO ENGA­GE IN DIRECT ADVER­TI­SING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR AFFEC­TED PER­SO­NAL DATA FOR THE PUR­PO­SES OF SUCH ADVER­TI­SING AT ANY TIME. THIS ALSO APPLI­ES TO PRO­FIL­ING TO THE EXT­ENT THAT IT IS AFFI­LIA­TED WITH SUCH DIRECT ADVER­TI­SING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA WILL SUB­SE­QUENT­LY NO LON­GER BE USED FOR DIRECT ADVER­TI­SING PUR­PO­SES (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­so­ry agency

In the event of vio­la­ti­ons of the GDPR, data sub­jects are entit­led to log a com­plaint with a super­vi­so­ry agen­cy, in par­ti­cu­lar in the mem­ber sta­te whe­re they usual­ly main­tain their domic­i­le, place of work or at the place whe­re the alle­ged vio­la­ti­on occur­red. The right to log a com­plaint is in effect regard­less of any other admi­nis­tra­ti­ve or court pro­cee­dings available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we pro­cess auto­ma­ti­cal­ly on the basis of your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract han­ded over to you or to a third par­ty in a com­mon, machi­ne-rea­da­ble for­mat. If you should demand the direct trans­fer of the data to ano­ther con­trol­ler, this will be done only if it is tech­ni­cal­ly feasible.

Infor­ma­ti­on about, rec­ti­fi­ca­ti­on and era­di­ca­ti­on of data

Within the scope of the appli­ca­ble sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons, you have the right to demand infor­ma­ti­on about your archi­ved per­so­nal data, their source and reci­pi­ents as well as the pur­po­se of the pro­ces­sing of your data at any time. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied or era­di­ca­ted. If you have ques­ti­ons about this sub­ject mat­ter or any other ques­ti­ons about per­so­nal data, plea­se do not hesi­ta­te to cont­act us at any time.

Right to demand pro­ces­sing restrictions

You have the right to demand the impo­si­ti­on of rest­ric­tions as far as the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data is con­cer­ned. To do so, you may cont­act us at any time. The right to demand rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing appli­es in the fol­lo­wing cases:

  • In the event that you should dis­pu­te the cor­rect­ness of your data archi­ved by us, we will usual­ly need some time to veri­fy this cla­im. During the time that this inves­ti­ga­ti­on is ongo­ing, you have the right to demand that we rest­rict the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.
  • If the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data was/​is con­duc­ted in an unlawful man­ner, you have the opti­on to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your data ins­tead of deman­ding the era­di­ca­ti­on of this data.
  • If we do not need your per­so­nal data any lon­ger and you need it to exer­cise, defend or cla­im legal entit­le­ments, you have the right to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data ins­tead of its eradication.
  • If you have rai­sed an objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weig­hed against each other. As long as it has not been deter­mi­ned who­se inte­rests pre­vail, you have the right to demand a rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data.

If you have rest­ric­ted the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data, the­se data – with the excep­ti­on of their archi­ving – may be pro­ces­sed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to cla­im, exer­cise or defend legal entit­le­ments or to pro­tect the rights of other natu­ral per­sons or legal enti­ties or for important public inte­rest reasons cited by the Euro­pean Uni­on or a mem­ber sta­te of the EU.

SSL and/​or TLS encryption

For secu­ri­ty reasons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­si­on of con­fi­den­ti­al con­tent, such as purcha­se orders or inqui­ries you sub­mit to us as the web­site ope­ra­tor, this web­site uses eit­her an SSL or a TLS encryp­ti­on pro­gram. You can reco­gni­ze an encrypt­ed con­nec­tion by che­cking whe­ther the address line of the brow­ser swit­ches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the brow­ser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryp­ti­on is acti­va­ted, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

Rejec­tion of unso­li­ci­ted e‑mails

We here­wi­th object to the use of cont­act infor­ma­ti­on published in con­junc­tion with the man­da­to­ry infor­ma­ti­on to be pro­vi­ded in our Site Noti­ce to send us pro­mo­tio­nal and infor­ma­ti­on mate­ri­al that we have not express­ly reques­ted. The ope­ra­tors of this web­site and its pages reser­ve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unso­li­ci­ted sen­ding of pro­mo­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on, for ins­tance via SPAM messages.

4. Recor­ding of data on this website

Coo­kies

Our web­sites and pages use what the indus­try refers to as “coo­kies.” Coo­kies are small data packa­ges that do not cau­se any dama­ge to your device. They are eit­her stored tem­po­r­a­ri­ly for the dura­ti­on of a ses­si­on (ses­si­on coo­kies) or they are per­ma­nent­ly archi­ved on your device (per­ma­nent coo­kies). Ses­si­on coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly dele­ted once you ter­mi­na­te your visit. Per­ma­nent coo­kies remain archi­ved on your device until you actively dele­te them, or they are auto­ma­ti­cal­ly era­di­ca­ted by your web browser.

Coo­kies can be issued by us (first-par­ty coo­kies) or by third-par­ty com­pa­nies (so-cal­led third-par­ty coo­kies). Third-par­ty coo­kies enable the inte­gra­ti­on of cer­tain ser­vices of third-par­ty com­pa­nies into web­sites (e.g., coo­kies for hand­ling pay­ment services).

Coo­kies have a varie­ty of func­tions. Many coo­kies are tech­ni­cal­ly essen­ti­al sin­ce cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the absence of the­se coo­kies (e.g., the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of vide­os). Other coo­kies may be used to ana­ly­ze user beha­vi­or or for pro­mo­tio­nal purposes.

Coo­kies, which are requi­red for the per­for­mance of elec­tro­nic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on tran­sac­tions, for the pro­vi­si­on of cer­tain func­tions you want to use (e.g., for the shop­ping cart func­tion) or tho­se that are neces­sa­ry for the opti­miza­ti­on (requi­red coo­kies) of the web­site (e.g., coo­kies that pro­vi­de mea­sura­ble insights into the web audi­ence), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless a dif­fe­rent legal basis is cited. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the sto­rage of requi­red coo­kies to ensu­re the tech­ni­cal­ly error-free and opti­mi­zed pro­vi­si­on of the operator’s ser­vices. If your con­sent to the sto­rage of the coo­kies and simi­lar reco­gni­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing occurs exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of the con­sent obtai­ned (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG); this con­sent may be revo­ked at any time.

You have the opti­on to set up your brow­ser in such a man­ner that you will be noti­fied any time coo­kies are pla­ced and to per­mit the accep­tance of coo­kies only in spe­ci­fic cases. You may also exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain cases or in gene­ral or acti­va­te the dele­te-func­tion for the auto­ma­tic era­di­ca­ti­on of coo­kies when the brow­ser clo­ses. If coo­kies are deac­ti­va­ted, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

Which coo­kies and ser­vices are used on this web­site can be found in this pri­va­cy policy.

Con­sent with Borlabs Cookie

Our web­site uses the Borlabs con­sent tech­no­lo­gy to obtain your con­sent to the sto­rage of cer­tain coo­kies in your brow­ser or for the use of cer­tain tech­no­lo­gies and for their data pri­va­cy pro­tec­tion com­pli­ant docu­men­ta­ti­on. The pro­vi­der of this tech­no­lo­gy is Borlabs GmbH, Rüben­kamp 32, 22305 Ham­burg, Ger­ma­ny (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as Borlabs).

When­ever you visit our web­site, a Borlabs coo­kie will be stored in your brow­ser, which archi­ves any decla­ra­ti­ons or revo­ca­ti­ons of con­sent you have ente­red. The­se data are not shared with the pro­vi­der of the Borlabs technology.

The recor­ded data shall remain archi­ved until you ask us to era­di­ca­te them, dele­te the Borlabs coo­kie on your own or the pur­po­se of sto­ring the data no lon­ger exists. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­di­ce to any reten­ti­on obli­ga­ti­ons man­da­ted by law. To review the details of Borlabs’ data pro­ces­sing poli­ci­es, plea­se visit https://​de​.borlabs​.io/​k​b​/​w​e​l​c​h​e​-​d​a​t​e​n​-​s​p​e​i​c​h​e​r​t​-​b​o​r​l​a​b​s​-​c​o​o​k​ie/

We use the Borlabs coo­kie con­sent tech­no­lo­gy to obtain the decla­ra­ti­ons of con­sent man­da­ted by law for the use of coo­kies. The legal basis for the use of such coo­kies is Art. 6(1)© GDPR.

Request by e‑mail, tele­pho­ne, or fax

If you cont­act us by e‑mail, tele­pho­ne or fax, your request, inclu­ding all resul­ting per­so­nal data (name, request) will be stored and pro­ces­sed by us for the pur­po­se of pro­ces­sing your request. We do not pass the­se data on wit­hout your consent.

The­se data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is rela­ted to the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or is requi­red for the per­for­mance of pre-con­trac­tu­al mea­su­res. In all other cases, the data are pro­ces­sed on the basis of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the effec­ti­ve hand­ling of inqui­ries sub­mit­ted to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if it has been obtai­ned; the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The data sent by you to us via cont­act requests remain with us until you request us to dele­te, revo­ke your con­sent to the sto­rage or the pur­po­se for the data sto­rage lap­ses (e.g. after com­ple­ti­on of your request). Man­da­to­ry sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons – in par­ti­cu­lar sta­tu­to­ry reten­ti­on peri­ods – remain unaffected.

Goog­le Forms

We have inte­gra­ted Goog­le Forms into this web­site. The pro­vi­der is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as „Goog­le”).

Goog­le Forms enables us to gene­ra­te online forms to record mes­sa­ges, inqui­ries and other ent­ries ente­red by visi­tors to our web­site. All ent­ries you make will be pro­ces­sed on Google’s ser­vers. Goog­le Forms stores a coo­kie in your brow­ser that con­ta­ins a uni­que ID (NID coo­kie). This coo­kie stores a wide ran­ge of infor­ma­ti­on, inclu­ding, for exam­p­le your lan­guage settings.

We use Goog­le Forms on the basis of our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in deter­mi­ning your needs as effec­tively as pos­si­ble (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The data you enter into the form will remain in our pos­ses­si­on until you ask us to dele­te them, revo­ke your con­sent to the archi­ving of your data or until the pur­po­se of archi­ving the data no lon­ger exists (e.g., upon com­ple­ti­on of the pro­ces­sing of your inquiry). This does not affect man­da­to­ry sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons – in par­ti­cu­lar tho­se gover­ning reten­ti­on periods.

For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Poli­cy at https://​poli​ci​es​.goog​le​.com/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​5​780.

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the abo­ve-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­va­cy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

5. Ana­ly­sis tools and advertising

Goog­le Analytics

This web­site uses func­tions of the web ana­ly­sis ser­vice Goog­le Ana­ly­tics. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics enables the web­site ope­ra­tor to ana­ly­ze the beha­vi­or pat­terns of web­site visi­tors. To that end, the web­site ope­ra­tor recei­ves a varie­ty of user data, such as pages acces­sed, time spent on the page, the uti­li­zed ope­ra­ting sys­tem and the user’s ori­gin. This data is sum­ma­ri­zed in a user-ID and assi­gned to the respec­ti­ve end device of the web­site visitor.

Fur­ther­mo­re, Goog­le Ana­ly­tics allows us to record your mou­se and scroll move­ments and clicks, among other things. Goog­le Ana­ly­tics uses various mode­ling approa­ches to aug­ment the coll­ec­ted data sets and uses machi­ne lear­ning tech­no­lo­gies in data analysis.

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics uses tech­no­lo­gies that make the reco­gni­ti­on of the user for the pur­po­se of ana­ly­zing the user beha­vi­or pat­terns (e.g., coo­kies or device fin­ger­prin­ting). The web­site use infor­ma­ti­on recor­ded by Goog­le is, as a rule trans­fer­red to a Goog­le ser­ver in the United Sta­tes, whe­re it is stored.

The use of the­se ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. You may revo­ke your con­sent at any time.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://​busi​ness​.safe​ty​.goog​le/​a​d​s​c​o​n​t​r​o​l​l​e​r​t​e​r​m​s​/​s​c​cs/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​5​780.

IP anony­miza­ti­on

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics IP anony­miza­ti­on is acti­ve. As a result, your IP address will be abbre­via­ted by Goog­le within the mem­ber sta­tes of the Euro­pean Uni­on or in other sta­tes that have rati­fied the Con­ven­ti­on on the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area pri­or to its trans­mis­si­on to the United Sta­tes. The full IP address will be trans­mit­ted to one of Google’s ser­vers in the United Sta­tes and abbre­via­ted the­re only in excep­tio­nal cases. On behalf of the ope­ra­tor of this web­site, Goog­le shall use this infor­ma­ti­on to ana­ly­ze your use of this web­site to gene­ra­te reports on web­site acti­vi­ties and to ren­der other ser­vices to the ope­ra­tor of this web­site that are rela­ted to the use of the web­site and the Inter­net. The IP address trans­mit­ted in con­junc­tion with Goog­le Ana­ly­tics from your brow­ser shall not be mer­ged with other data in Google’s possession.

Brow­ser plug-in

You can pre­vent the recor­ding and pro­ces­sing of your data by Goog­le by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the brow­ser plug­in available under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​tools​.goog​le​.com/​d​l​p​a​g​e​/​g​a​o​p​t​o​u​t​?​h​l​=en.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about the hand­ling of user data by Goog­le Ana­ly­tics, plea­se con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on at: https://​sup​port​.goog​le​.com/​a​n​a​l​y​t​i​c​s​/​a​n​s​w​e​r​/​6​0​0​4​2​4​5​?​h​l​=en.

Goog­le Signals

We use Goog­le Signals. When­ever you visit our web­site, Goog­le Ana­ly­tics records, among other things, your loca­ti­on, the pro­gres­si­on of your search and You­Tube pro­gres­si­on as well as demo­gra­phic data (site visi­tor data). This data may be used for cus­to­mi­zed adver­ti­sing with the assis­tance of Goog­le Signal. If you have a Goog­le account, your site visi­tor infor­ma­ti­on will be lin­ked to your Goog­le account by Goog­le Signal and used to send you cus­to­mi­zed pro­mo­tio­nal mes­sa­ges. The data is also used to com­pi­le anony­mi­zed sta­tis­tics of our users’ online patterns.

Con­tract data processing

We have exe­cu­ted a con­tract data pro­ces­sing agree­ment with Goog­le and are imple­men­ting the strin­gent pro­vi­si­ons of the Ger­man data pro­tec­tion agen­ci­es to the ful­lest when using Goog­le Analytics.

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics E‑Com­mer­ce-Track­ing

This web­site uses the “E‑Commerce Track­ing” func­tion of Goog­le Ana­ly­tics. With the assis­tance of E‑Commerce Track­ing, the web­site ope­ra­tor is in a posi­ti­on to ana­ly­ze the purcha­sing pat­terns of web­site visi­tors with the aim of impro­ving the operator’s online mar­ke­ting cam­paigns. In this con­text, infor­ma­ti­on, such as the orders pla­ced, the avera­ge order values, ship­ping cos­ts and the time from vie­w­ing the pro­duct to making the purcha­sing decis­i­on are tra­cked. The­se data may be con­so­li­da­ted by Goog­le under a tran­sac­tion ID, which is allo­ca­ted to the respec­ti­ve user or the user’s device.

WP Sta­tis­tics

This web­site uses the WP Sta­tis­tics ana­ly­sis tool to eva­lua­te visi­tor acces­ses sta­tis­ti­cal­ly. The pro­vi­der is Vero­nalabs, Tata­ri 64, 10134, Tal­linn, Esto­nia (https://​vero​nalabs​.com).

WP Sta­tis­tics can be used to ana­ly­ze the use of our web­site. In doing so, WP Sta­tis­tics records, among other things, log files (IP address, refer­rer, brow­ser used, ori­gin of the user, search engi­ne used) and actions that the web­site visi­tors have taken on the site (e.g. clicks and views).

The data coll­ec­ted with WP Sta­tis­tics is stored exclu­si­ve­ly on our own server.

The use of this ana­ly­sis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the anony­mi­zed ana­ly­sis of user beha­vi­or in order to opti­mi­ze both our web­sites and our adver­ti­sing. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Goog­le Ads

The web­site ope­ra­tor uses Goog­le Ads. Goog­le Ads is an online pro­mo­tio­nal pro­gram of Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

Goog­le Ads enables us to dis­play ads in the Goog­le search engi­ne or on third-par­ty web­sites, if the user enters cer­tain search terms into Goog­le (key­word tar­ge­ting). It is also pos­si­ble to place tar­ge­ted ads based on the user data Goog­le has in its pos­ses­si­on (e.g., loca­ti­on data and inte­rests; tar­get group tar­ge­ting). As the web­site ope­ra­tor, we can ana­ly­ze the­se data quan­ti­ta­tively, for ins­tance by ana­ly­zing which search terms resul­ted in the dis­play of our ads and how many ads led to respec­ti­ve clicks.

The use of the­se ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. You may revo­ke your con­sent at any time.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://​poli​ci​es​.goog​le​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​/​f​r​a​m​e​w​o​rks and https://​busi​ness​.safe​ty​.goog​le/​c​o​n​t​r​o​l​l​e​r​t​e​r​ms/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​5​780.

Goog­le Conversion-Tracking

This web­site uses Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Track­ing. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Goog­le Ire­land Limi­t­ed (“Goog­le”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ireland.

With the assis­tance of Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Track­ing, we are in a posi­ti­on to reco­gni­ze whe­ther the user has com­ple­ted cer­tain actions. For ins­tance, we can ana­ly­ze the how fre­quent­ly which but­tons on our web­site have been cli­cked and which pro­ducts are review­ed or purcha­sed with par­ti­cu­lar fre­quen­cy. The pur­po­se of this infor­ma­ti­on is to com­pi­le con­ver­si­on sta­tis­tics. We learn how many users have cli­cked on our ads and which actions they have com­ple­ted. We do not recei­ve any infor­ma­ti­on that would allow us to per­so­nal­ly iden­ti­fy the users. Goog­le as such uses coo­kies or com­pa­ra­ble reco­gni­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies for iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on purposes.

The use of the­se ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. You may revo­ke your con­sent at any time.

For more infor­ma­ti­on about Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Track­ing, plea­se review Google’s data pro­tec­tion poli­cy at: https://​poli​ci​es​.goog​le​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​?​h​l​=en

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​5​780.

Meta Pixel (form­er­ly Face­book Pixel)

To mea­su­re con­ver­si­on rates, this web­site uses the visi­tor acti­vi­ty pixel of Meta. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Limi­t­ed, 4 Grand Canal Squa­re, Dub­lin 2, Ire­land. Accor­ding to Meta’s state­ment the coll­ec­ted data will be trans­fer­red to the USA and other third-par­ty count­ries too.

This tool allows the track­ing of page visi­tors after they have been lin­ked to the web­site of the pro­vi­der after cli­cking on a Meta ad. This makes it pos­si­ble to ana­ly­ze the effec­ti­ve­ness of Meta ads for sta­tis­ti­cal and mar­ket rese­arch pur­po­ses and to opti­mi­ze future adver­ti­sing campaigns.

For us as the ope­ra­tors of this web­site, the coll­ec­ted data is anony­mous. We are not in a posi­ti­on to arri­ve at any con­clu­si­ons as to the iden­ti­ty of users. Howe­ver, Meta archi­ves the infor­ma­ti­on and pro­ces­ses it, so that it is pos­si­ble to make a con­nec­tion to the respec­ti­ve user pro­fi­le on Face­book or Insta­gram and Meta is in a posi­ti­on to use the data for its own pro­mo­tio­nal pur­po­ses in com­pli­ance with the Meta Data Usa­ge Poli­cy (https://​www​.face​book​.com/​a​b​o​u​t​/​p​r​i​v​a​cy/). This enables Meta to dis­play ads on Face­book or Insta­gram and other adver­ti­sing chan­nels. We as the ope­ra­tor of this web­site have no con­trol over the use of such data.

The use of the­se ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­su­ant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. You may revo­ke your con­sent at any time.

Within the meta pixel, we are using the expan­ded ali­gnment function.

The expan­ded ali­gnment allows us to trans­fer to Meta dif­fe­rent types of data (e.g., place of resi­dence, fede­ral sta­te, zip code, hash­ed email addres­ses, names, gen­der, date of birth or pho­ne num­ber) of our cus­to­mers and pro­s­pects we coll­ect through our web­site. Here­wi­th, we can tail­or the offers pre­sen­ted in our adver­ti­sing cam­paigns on Face­book and Insta­gram to indi­vi­du­als inte­res­ted in what we offer even more pre­cis­e­ly. Moreo­ver, this expan­ded ali­gnment opti­mi­zes the allo­ca­ti­on of web­site con­ver­si­ons and expands cus­tom audiences.

Inso­far as per­so­nal data is coll­ec­ted on our web­site with the help of the tool descri­bed here and for­ward­ed to Meta, we and Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Limi­t­ed, 4 Grand Canal Squa­re, Grand Canal Har­bour, Dub­lin 2, Ire­land are joint­ly respon­si­ble for this data pro­ces­sing (Art. 26 DSGVO). The joint respon­si­bi­li­ty is limi­t­ed exclu­si­ve­ly to the coll­ec­tion of the data and its for­war­ding to Meta. The pro­ces­sing by Meta that takes place after the onward trans­fer is not part of the joint respon­si­bi­li­ty. The obli­ga­ti­ons incum­bent on us have been joint­ly set out in a joint pro­ces­sing agree­ment. The wor­ding of the agree­ment can be found under: https://​www​.face​book​.com/​l​e​g​a​l​/​c​o​n​t​r​o​l​l​e​r​_​a​d​d​e​n​dum. Accor­ding to this agree­ment, we are respon­si­ble for pro­vi­ding the pri­va­cy infor­ma­ti­on when using the Meta tool and for the pri­va­cy-secu­re imple­men­ta­ti­on of the tool on our web­site. Meta is respon­si­ble for the data secu­ri­ty of Meta pro­ducts. You can assert data sub­ject rights (e.g., requests for infor­ma­ti­on) regar­ding data pro­ces­sed by Face­book or Insta­gram direct­ly with Meta. If you assert the data sub­ject rights with us, we are obli­ged to for­ward them to Meta.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://​www​.face​book​.com/​l​e​g​a​l​/​E​U​_​d​a​t​a​_​t​r​a​n​s​f​e​r​_​a​d​d​e​n​dumand https://​de​-de​.face​book​.com/​h​e​l​p​/​5​6​6​9​9​4​6​6​0​3​3​3​381.

In Meta’s Data Pri­va­cy Poli­ci­es, you will find addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on about the pro­tec­tion of your pri­va­cy at: https://​www​.face​book​.com/​a​b​o​u​t​/​p​r​i​v​a​cy/.

You also have the opti­on to deac­ti­va­te the remar­ke­ting func­tion “Cus­tom Audi­en­ces” in the ad set­tings sec­tion under https://​www​.face​book​.com/​a​d​s​/​p​r​e​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​s​/​?​e​n​t​r​y​_​p​r​o​d​u​c​t​=​a​d​_​s​e​t​t​i​n​g​s​_​s​c​r​een. To do this, you first have to log into Facebook.

If you do not have a Face­book or Insta­gram account, you can deac­ti­va­te any user-based adver­ti­sing by Meta on the web­site of the Euro­pean Inter­ac­ti­ve Digi­tal Adver­ti­sing Alli­ance: http://​www​.you​ron​line​choices​.com/​d​e​/​p​r​a​f​e​r​e​n​z​m​a​n​a​g​e​m​e​nt/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​4​452.

6. Plug-ins and Tools

Goog­le Fonts (local embedding)

This web­site uses so-cal­led Goog­le Fonts pro­vi­ded by Goog­le to ensu­re the uni­form use of fonts on this site. The­se Goog­le fonts are local­ly instal­led so that a con­nec­tion to Google’s ser­vers will not be estab­lished in con­junc­tion with this application.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on Goog­le Fonts, plea­se fol­low this link: https://​deve​lo​pers​.goog​le​.com/​f​o​n​t​s​/​faq and con­sult Google’s Data Pri­va­cy Decla­ra­ti­on under: https://​poli​ci​es​.goog​le​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​?​h​l​=en.

Cloud­fla­re Turnstile

We use “Cloud­fla­re Turn­sti­le” on this web­site. The pro­vi­der is Cloud­fla­re Inc., 101 Town­send St., San Fran­cis­co, CA 94107, USA (her­ein­af­ter “Turn­sti­le”).

Turn­sti­le is used to check whe­ther the data input on this web­site (e.g., in a cont­act form) is done by a human or by an auto­ma­ted pro­gram. For this pur­po­se, Turn­sti­le ana­ly­zes the beha­vi­or of the web­site visi­tor based on a num­ber of characteristics.

This ana­ly­sis starts auto­ma­ti­cal­ly as soon as the web­site visi­tor enters a web­site that uses Turn­sti­le. For the ana­ly­sis, Turn­sti­le eva­lua­tes various infor­ma­ti­on (e.g., IP address, time spent on the web­site or mou­se move­ments made by the user). The data coll­ec­ted during the ana­ly­sis is for­ward­ed to Cloudflare.

The sto­rage and ana­ly­sis of the data is based on Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in pro­tec­ting his web offe­rings from abu­si­ve auto­ma­ted spy­ing and from Spam. If such con­sent has been obtai­ned, the data will be pro­ces­sed exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, if the con­sent com­pri­ses the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­ti­on on the user’s device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) as defi­ned in the TDDDG (Ger­man Tele­com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons Act). Such con­sent may be revo­ked at any time.

The pro­ces­sing of data is based on Stan­dard Con­tract Clau­ses, which you can find here: https://​www​.cloud​fla​re​.com/​c​l​o​u​d​f​l​a​r​e​-​c​u​s​t​o​m​e​r​-​s​cc/.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on Cloud­fla­re Turn­sti­le, plea­se visit the pri­va­cy poli­cy at: https://​www​.cloud​fla​re​.com/​c​l​o​u​d​f​l​a​r​e​-​c​u​s​t​o​m​e​r​-​d​pa/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​5​666.

Mana­geWP

We admi­nis­tra­te this web­site with the assis­tance of the Mana­geWP tool. The pro­vi­der is GoDad​dy​.com WP Euro­pe, Trg repu­bli­ke 5, 11000 Bel­gra­de, Ser­bia (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as ManageWP).

Among other things, Mana­geWP ensu­res that we can moni­tor the secu­ri­ty and per­for­mance of our web­site as well as gene­ra­te auto­ma­tic back­ups. Con­se­quent­ly, Mana­geWP has access to all of the website’s con­tent, inclu­ding our data­ba­ses. Mana­geWP is being hos­ted on the provider’s servers.

The use of Mana­geWP is based on Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in a website(s) that work(s) as effec­tively and secu­re­ly as pos­si­ble. If appro­pria­te con­sent has been obtai­ned, the pro­ces­sing is car­ri­ed out exclu­si­ve­ly on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or the access to infor­ma­ti­on in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​4​957.

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the abo­ve-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­va­cy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

7. Online-based Audio and Video Con­fe­ren­ces (Con­fe­rence tools)

Data pro­ces­sing

We use online con­fe­rence tools, among other things, for com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on with our cus­to­mers. The tools we use are lis­ted in detail below. If you com­mu­ni­ca­te with us by video or audio con­fe­rence using the Inter­net, your per­so­nal data will be coll­ec­ted and pro­ces­sed by the pro­vi­der of the respec­ti­ve con­fe­rence tool and by us. The con­fe­ren­cing tools coll­ect all infor­ma­ti­on that you provide/​access to use the tools (email address and/​or your pho­ne num­ber). Fur­ther­mo­re, the con­fe­rence tools pro­cess the dura­ti­on of the con­fe­rence, start and end (time) of par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in the con­fe­rence, num­ber of par­ti­ci­pan­ts and other “con­text infor­ma­ti­on” rela­ted to the com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on pro­cess (meta­da­ta).

Fur­ther­mo­re, the pro­vi­der of the tool pro­ces­ses all the tech­ni­cal data requi­red for the pro­ces­sing of the online com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on. This includes, in par­ti­cu­lar, IP addres­ses, MAC addres­ses, device IDs, device type, ope­ra­ting sys­tem type and ver­si­on, cli­ent ver­si­on, came­ra type, micro­pho­ne or loud­spea­k­er and the type of connection.

Should con­tent be exch­an­ged, uploa­ded, or other­wi­se made available within the tool, it is also stored on the ser­vers of the tool pro­vi­der. Such con­tent includes, but is not limi­t­ed to, cloud recor­dings, chat/​instant mes­sa­ges, voice­mail uploa­ded pho­tos and vide­os, files, white­boards, and other infor­ma­ti­on shared while using the service.

Plea­se note that we do not have com­ple­te influence on the data pro­ces­sing pro­ce­du­res of the tools used. Our pos­si­bi­li­ties are lar­ge­ly deter­mi­ned by the cor­po­ra­te poli­cy of the respec­ti­ve pro­vi­der. Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on on data pro­ces­sing by the con­fe­rence tools can be found in the data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­ti­ons of the tools used, and which we have lis­ted below this text.

Pur­po­se and legal bases

The con­fe­rence tools are used to com­mu­ni­ca­te with pro­s­pec­ti­ve or exis­ting con­trac­tu­al part­ners or to offer cer­tain ser­vices to our cus­to­mers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Fur­ther­mo­re, the use of the tools ser­ves to gene­ral­ly sim­pli­fy and acce­le­ra­te com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on with us or our com­pa­ny (legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest in the mea­ning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Inso­far as con­sent has been reques­ted, the tools in ques­ti­on will be used on the basis of this con­sent; the con­sent may be revo­ked at any time with effect from that date.

Dura­ti­on of storage

Data coll­ec­ted direct­ly by us via the video and con­fe­rence tools will be dele­ted from our sys­tems imme­dia­te­ly after you request us to dele­te it, revo­ke your con­sent to sto­rage, or the reason for sto­ring the data no lon­ger appli­es. Stored coo­kies remain on your end device until you dele­te them. Man­da­to­ry legal reten­ti­on peri­ods remain unaffected.

We have no influence on the dura­ti­on of sto­rage of your data that is stored by the ope­ra­tors of the con­fe­rence tools for their own pur­po­ses. For details, plea­se direct­ly cont­act the ope­ra­tors of the con­fe­rence tools.

Con­fe­rence tools used

We employ the fol­lo­wing con­fe­rence tools:

Zoom

We use Zoom. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Zoom Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons Inc, San Jose, 55 Alma­den Bou­le­vard, 6th Flo­or, San Jose, CA 95113, USA. For details on data pro­ces­sing, plea­se refer to Zoom’s pri­va­cy poli­cy: https://​www​.zoom​.com/​d​e​/​t​r​u​s​t​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​-​s​t​a​t​e​m​e​nt/.

Data trans­mis­si­on to the US is based on the Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Clau­ses (SCC) of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on. Details can be found here: https://​www​.zoom​.com/​d​e​/​t​r​u​s​t​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​-​s​t​a​t​e​m​e​nt/.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​5​728.

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the abo­ve-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­va­cy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.

Micro­soft Teams

We use Micro­soft Teams. The pro­vi­der is the Micro­soft Ire­land Ope­ra­ti­ons Limi­t­ed, One Micro­soft Place, South Coun­ty Busi­ness Park, Leo­pard­stown, Dub­lin 18, Ire­land. For details on data pro­ces­sing, plea­se refer to the Micro­soft Teams pri­va­cy poli­cy: https://​pri​va​cy​.micro​soft​.com/​e​n​-​u​s​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​s​t​a​t​e​m​ent.

The com­pa­ny is cer­ti­fied in accordance with the “EU-US Data Pri­va­cy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment bet­ween the Euro­pean Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensu­re com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the US. Every com­pa­ny cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obli­ged to com­ply with the­se data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. For more infor­ma­ti­on, plea­se cont­act the pro­vi­der under the fol­lo­wing link: https://​www​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​/​6​474.

Data pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the abo­ve-men­tio­ned ser­vice. This is a con­tract man­da­ted by data pri­va­cy laws that gua­ran­tees that they pro­cess per­so­nal data of our web­site visi­tors only based on our ins­truc­tions and in com­pli­ance with the GDPR.