With this data protection declaration we would like to inform you about the type, scope and purpose of processing personal data (hereinafter also referred to as "data"). Personal data are all data that have a personal reference to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail address or your user behavior. This data protection declaration applies to all data processing operations carried out by us both within the scope of our core activity and for the online media we maintain.

Processing of your data within the scope of the core activity of our company

If you are our customer or business partner or are interested in our services, the type, scope and purpose of processing your data is based on the contractual or pre-contractual relationship existing between us. In this sense, the data processed by us includes all those data which are or were provided by you for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and which are required to process your inquiry or the contract concluded between us. Unless otherwise stated in the further notes of this data protection declaration, the processing of your data as well as their transfer to third parties is limited to those data which are necessary and expedient for answering your inquiries and/or for the fulfillment of the contract concluded between you and us, for the protection of our rights as well as for the fulfillment of legal obligations. We will inform you of which data is required for this purpose before or during the data collection process. If we use third party providers to provide our services, the data protection information of the respective third party provider applies.

Data concerned:

• Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses)
• Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices)
• Contact details (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number, postal address)
• Contract data (e.g. object of contract, contract period)

Persons concerned: Interested parties, business and contractual partners

Processing purpose: Processing of contractual services, communication as well as answering contact inquiries, office and organizational procedures

Legal basis: Fulfillment of contract and pre-contractual inquiries, Art. 6(1)(b) DSGVO, legal obligation, Art. 6(1)(c) DSGVO, legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO

Your rights according to the DSGVO

According to the DSGVO, you are entitled to the rights listed below, which you can assert at any time with the person responsible named in section 1 of this data protection declaration:

• Right to information: You have the right to demand information from us as to whether and which of your data we are processing.
• Right of rectification: You have the right to request the rectification of incorrect data or the completion of incomplete data.
• Right to deletion: You have the right to ask for the deletion of your data.
• Right to limitation: In certain cases, you have the right to request that we process your data only to a limited extent.
• Right to data transferability: You have the right to demand that we transfer your data to you or another responsible party in a structured, common and machine-readable format.
• Right of complaint: You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. The competent authority is the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, your place of work or our company headquarters.

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to revoke your consent to data processing at any time.

Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data, which we base on our legitimate interest according to Art. 6 Par. 1 letter f DSGVO. If you exercise your right of objection, we would ask you to explain the reasons. We will then no longer process your personal data unless we can prove to you that compelling reasons for data processing worthy of protection outweigh your interests and rights.

Irrespective of the above, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data for advertising and data analysis purposes.

Please send your objection to the contact address of the person responsible stated above.

When do we delete your data?

Wir löschen Ihre Daten dann, wenn wir diese nicht mehr brauchen oder Sie uns dies vorgeben. Dass bedeutet, dass – sofern sich aus den einzelnen Datenschutzhinweisen dieser Datenschutzerklärung nichts anderes ergibt – wir Ihre Daten löschen,

• if the purpose of the data processing has ceased to exist and thus the respective legal basis mentioned in the individual data protection notices no longer exists, e.g.
  • after termination of the contractual or membership relations existing between us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO) or
  • after loss of our legitimate interest in the further processing or storage of your data (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO),
• if you make use of your right of revocation and no other legal basis for the processing within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b-f DSGVO intervenes,
• if you make use of your right of objection and there are no compelling reasons worthy of protection against the deletion.

However, if we have to keep (certain parts of) your data for other purposes, for example, because of tax retention periods (usually 6 years for business correspondence or 10 years for accounting records) or the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims arising from contractual relationships (up to four years) make this necessary, or if the data is used to protect the rights of another natural person or legal entity, we will not delete (that part of) your data until these periods have expired. Until the expiry of these periods, however, we will limit the processing of this data to these purposes (fulfillment of the storage obligations).

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are stored on the terminal device you use. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the end device you use and our website. This includes, for example, the language settings on a website, the login status or the location where a video was viewed.

Two types of cookies are used when you visit our website:

• Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, which can be used to assign various requests from your browser to the shared session. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
• Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after you close your browser. This enables our website to recognize your computer when you return to our website. Information on language settings or log-in information, for example, is stored in these cookies. In addition, your surfing behavior can be documented and stored with these cookies. This data can be used for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes.

In addition to the above classification, cookies can also be differentiated according to their purpose:

• Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website, to store logins or shopping baskets for the duration of your session or cookies that are set for security reasons.
• Statistical, marketing and personalization cookies: Dies sind Cookies, die für Analysezwecke oder die Reichweitenmessung eingesetzt werden. Über solche “Tracking”-Cookies können insbesondere Informationen zu eingegebenen Suchbegriffen oder die Häufigkeit von Seitenaufrufen gespeichert sein. Daneben kann aber auch das Surfverhalten eines einzelnen Nutzers (z. B. Betrachten bestimmter Inhalte, Nutzen von Funktionen etc.) in einem Nutzerprofil gespeichert werden. Solche Profile werden genutzt, um Nutzern Inhalte anzuzeigen, die deren potentiellen Interessen entsprechen. Soweit wir Dienste nutzen, über die Cookies zu Statistik-, Marketing- und Personalisierungs-Zwecken auf Ihrem Endgerät gespeichert werden, informieren wir Sie hierzu gesondert in den nachfolgenden Abschnitten unserer Datenschutzerklärung oder im Rahmen der Einholung Ihrer Einwilligung.

Data concerned:

• Usage data (e.g. access times, websites clicked on)
• Communication data (e.g. information about the device used, IP address).

Persons concerned: Users of our online offers

Processing purpose: Playing our web pages, ensuring the operation of our web pages, improving our web offer, communication and branding

Legal basis:
Legitimate interest, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO
If we do not obtain your consent to the use of cookies, we base the processing of your data on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our website, in particular the content and functions. You have the security settings of your browser to object to the use of cookies set by us within the scope of our legitimate interest. There you have the possibility to specify whether you do not accept cookies from the outset or only accept cookies on request, or whether you want cookies to be deleted each time you close your browser. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it is possible that not all functions of the website can be used to their full extent.

Security measures

We also take technical and organizational security measures in accordance with the state of the art in order to comply with the provisions of the data protection laws and to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties.

Up-to-dateness and amendment of this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is currently valid and has the status of September 2020. Due to changed legal or official requirements it may be necessary to adapt this data protection declaration.

This data protection declaration was created with the help of the data protection generator of SOS Recht. SOS Recht is an offer of the Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft, based in Berlin.