Data Protection

YOUR DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS

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

• Information about your data stored by us and its processing,
• Correction of inaccurate personal data,
• Deletion of your data stored with us,
• Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
• object to the processing of your data by us and
• Data portability, provided that you have consented to the data processing or have concluded a contract with us.

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

You can contact the supervising authority responsible for you at any time with a complaint. Your competent, supervising authority depends on the federal state of your residence, your work, or the alleged violation. A list of the supervising authorities (for the non-public sector) with address can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

PURPOSES OF DATA PROCESSING BY THE CONTROLLER AND THIRD PARTIES

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those stated. We will only disclose your personal data to third parties if:

• you have given your express consent to this,
• the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you,
• processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation,

the processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data.

DELETION OR BLOCKING OF DATA

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. We, therefore, only store your personal data for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as stipulated by the various storage periods provided for by law. After the respective purpose has ceased to exist or these periods have expired, the corresponding data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.

COLLECTION OF GENERAL INFORMATION WHEN VISITING OUR WEBSITE

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by means of a cookie. This information (server log files) includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, etc. This is exclusive information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.

This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver website content requested by you, and is mandatory when using the Internet. In particular, it is processed for the following purposes:

• Ensure that the website is connected without any problems,
• Ensuring smooth use of our website,
• Evaluation of system security and stability, and
• for other administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest from the aforementioned purposes for data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Recipients of the data are only the responsible body and, if applicable, order processors.

Anonymous information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our Internet presence and the technology behind it.

COOKIES

Like many other websites, we also use so-called „cookies.“ Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard drive. Through this, we automatically receive certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system, and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies allows us to facilitate your navigation and enable the correct display of our web pages.

Under no circumstances will the data we collect be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

SSL ENCRYPTION

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

NEWSLETTER

On the basis of your expressly given consent, we will regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by e-mail to your specified e-mail address.

To receive the newsletter, it is sufficient to provide your e-mail address. When registering to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by e-mail about circumstances relevant to the service or registration (for example, changes to the newsletter offer or technical circumstances).

For an effective registration, we need a valid e-mail address. In order to verify that a registration is actually made by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the „double-opt-in“ procedure. For this purpose, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation email, and the receipt of the response requested herewith. No further data is collected. The data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter and is not passed on to third parties.

Newsletter via Klaviyo: We use the Klaviyo component to send our newsletter. Klaviyo is a service of the company Klaviyo Inc, Boston, USA. Your data stored during the newsletter registration (e-mail address, name, IP address, date and time of your registration) are transferred to a server of Klaviyo Inc. in the USA and stored there in compliance with the „EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.“ Further information on data protection at Klaviyo can be found at: http://klaviyo.com/privacy/. You can cancel or revoke your subscription to this newsletter and thus your consent to the storage of your data at any time for the future. You can find details of this in the confirmation email and in each individual newsletter.

Newsletter tracking: Our newsletters contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which allow us to recognize if and when an email was opened and which links in the email were followed by the personalized recipient. We store this data so that we can optimally tailor our newsletters to the wishes and interests of our subscribers. Accordingly, the data thus collected is used to send personalized newsletters to the respective recipient.

Consent to the newsletter: With regard to the use of your personal data to receive our newsletter, you will be asked for consent at the appropriate point. By confirming, you agree that your data and your usage behavior will be electronically stored by the newsletter tracking in order to send you individual newsletters. By revoking your newsletter consent, you also revoke your consent to newsletter tracking. Furthermore, by confirming the privacy policy, you consent to your newsletter data being processed and stored by a service provider in the USA.

CONTACT FORM

If you contact us by e-mail or contact form regarding questions of any kind, you give us your voluntary consent for the purpose of contacting you. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a valid e-mail address. This serves the allocation of the inquiry and the subsequent answer of the same. The provision of further data is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Use of Instagram: We use the service Instagram on our website. Instagram is a service of Instagram Inc. 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA. Through the integrated „Insta“ button on our site, Instagram receives the information that you have called up the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can assign this visit to our site to your Instagram account and thus link the data. The data transmitted by clicking on the „Insta“ button is stored by Instagram . We have neither influence on the data that Instagram collects through this, nor on the scope of this data collected by Instagram . For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection, its processing and use, as well as your rights in this respect and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the Instagram privacy policy, which you can find here https://help.instagram .com/155833707900388. To prevent Instagram from associating your visit to our site with your Instagram account, you must log out of your Instagram account before visiting our site.

CHANGE OF OUR DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always complies with the current legal requirements or in order to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g., when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

QUESTIONS TO THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, restriction, or deletion of data as well as revocation of consent given or objection to a certain use of data, please contact us directly using the contact details in our imprint.