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 Re­qui­red by Law” on this web­site.

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.

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 un­der the ad­dress dis­clo­sed in sec­tion “In­for­ma­ti­on Re­qui­red by Law” on this web­site if you have ques­ti­ons about this or any other data pro­tec­tion re­la­ted is­su­es.

2. Hos­ting and Con­tent De­li­very Net­works (CDN)

Ex­ter­nal Hos­ting

This web­site is hosted by an ex­ter­nal ser­vice pro­vi­der (host). 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 host is used for the pur­po­se of ful­fil­ling the contract with our po­ten­ti­al and exis­ting cust­o­m­ers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the in­te­rest of se­cu­re, fast and ef­fi­ci­ent pro­vi­si­on of our on­line ser­vices by a pro­fes­sio­nal pro­vi­der (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Our host 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:

uth­lan­de-it Hans Jür­gen Vr­ins­sen
Uth­lan­der Str. 24
25813 Hu­sum

Exe­cu­ti­on of a contract data pro­ces­sing agree­ment

In or­der to gua­ran­tee pro­ces­sing in com­p­li­an­ce with data pro­tec­tion re­gu­la­ti­ons, we have con­clu­ded an or­der pro­ces­sing contract with our host.

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:

Ste­fa­nie Sil­ber
Knor­restr. 7
20099 Ham­burg

Pho­ne: +49 (0) 174-334 30 36
E-mail: ste​fani​e.​silber@​ste​fani​esil​ber.​de

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.

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 SECT. 1 LIT. 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 SECT. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA IS BEING PRO­CES­SED IN OR­DER TO EN­GA­GE IN DI­RECT AD­VER­TI­SING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OB­JECT TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR AF­FEC­TED PER­SO­NAL DATA FOR THE PUR­PO­SES OF SUCH AD­VER­TI­SING. 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 SECT. 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 de­mand that we hand over any data we au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly pro­cess on the ba­sis of your con­sent or in or­der to ful­fil a contract be han­ded over to you or a third par­ty in a com­mon­ly used, 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.

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.

In­for­ma­ti­on about, rec­tifi­ca­ti­on and era­di­ca­ti­on of data

Wi­t­hin the scope of the ap­p­lica­ble sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons, you have the right to at any time de­mand in­for­ma­ti­on about your ar­chi­ved per­so­nal data, their sour­ce and re­ci­pi­ents as well as the pur­po­se of the pro­ces­sing of your data. 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 at the ad­dress pro­vi­ded in sec­tion “In­for­ma­ti­on Re­qui­red by Law.”

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 at the ad­dress pro­vi­ded in sec­tion “In­for­ma­ti­on Re­qui­red by Law.” 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 in lieu 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 Sect. 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.

4. Re­cor­ding of data on this web­site

Ser­ver log files

The pro­vi­der of this web­site and its pa­ges au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly collects and stores in­for­ma­ti­on in so-cal­led ser­ver log files, which your brow­ser com­mu­ni­ca­tes to us au­to­ma­ti­cal­ly. The in­for­ma­ti­on com­pri­ses:

  • The type and ver­si­on of brow­ser used
  • The used ope­ra­ting sys­tem
  • Re­fer­rer URL
  • The host­na­me of the ac­ces­sing com­pu­ter
  • The time of the ser­ver in­qui­ry
  • The IP ad­dress

This data is not mer­ged with other data sour­ces.

This data is re­cor­ded on the ba­sis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest in the tech­ni­cal­ly er­ror free de­pic­tion and the op­ti­miza­t­i­on of the ope­ra­tor’s web­site. In or­der to achie­ve this, ser­ver log files must be re­cor­ded.