Privacy Policy
1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Notes

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data means all data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on data protection can be found in our Privacy Policy listed below.

Data Collection on this Website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the section “Information on the Responsible Party” in this Privacy Policy.

How do we collect your data?

Some data is collected when you provide it to us. This may, for example, be data you enter into a contact form.

Other data is collected automatically or after your consent when visiting the website through our IT systems. This mainly includes technical data (e.g., browser, operating system, time of page access). The collection of this data occurs automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive free information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you may revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time about this or any other questions relating to data protection.

Analytics Tools and Third-Party Tools

When visiting this website, your browsing behaviour may be statistically evaluated. This happens primarily with analysis programs. Detailed information on these analysis programs can be found in this Privacy Policy below.

2. Hosting

External Hosting

This website is hosted externally. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the hosting provider(s). This may primarily include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access, and other data generated via a website.

External hosting is carried out for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations towards potential and existing customers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the interest of providing our online services securely, quickly, and efficiently through a professional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Where consent has been requested, processing is based exclusively on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as consent covers the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device (e.g., device fingerprinting). Consent can be revoked at any time.

Our hosting provider will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its service obligations and will follow our instructions regarding this data.

We use the following hosting provider:
webhoster.de AG
Zum Haunert 22
59519 Möhnesee

Data Processing Agreement

We have concluded a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) for the use of the above service. This is a legally required contract ensuring that personal data of our website visitors is processed only according to our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. General Notes and Mandatory Information

General Legal Bases for 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 and Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR, insofar as special categories of data according to Art. 9(1) GDPR are processed. In the event of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also carried out on the basis of Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR.

If you have consented to the storage of cookies or access to information on your end device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), data processing is additionally carried out on the basis of § 25(1) TDDDG. Consent may be revoked at any time.

If your data is required for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Furthermore, if your data is required to fulfill a legal obligation, we process it on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.

Data processing may also be based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The relevant legal bases applicable in each individual case are explained in the following sections of this Privacy Policy.

Recipients of Personal Data

In the course of our business activities, we work with various external parties. This sometimes involves the transfer of personal data to these third parties.

We only pass on personal data to external parties if this is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract, if we are legally obliged to do so (e.g. transfer to tax authorities), if we have a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in the transfer, or if another legal basis permits the transfer of data.

When using processors, we only disclose personal data of our customers on the basis of a valid Data Processing Agreement. In the case of joint processing, a Joint Processing Agreement will be concluded.

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Object to Data Processing in Special Cases and to Direct Marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, AT ANY TIME, TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RELEVANT LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR AFFECTED PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING WHICH OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING IS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work, or the place of the alleged breach. The right to lodge a complaint exists without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to have data which 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 commonly used, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only take place where technically feasible.

Access, Rectification, and Erasure

Within the framework of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, if necessary, a right to correction or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time for this purpose, as well as for further questions on the subject of personal data.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You may contact us at any time to exercise this right. The right to restriction applies in the following cases:

If you contest the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If the processing of your personal data was/is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.

If we no longer need your personal data but you require it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.

If you have objected pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balancing of your interests and ours must be carried out. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data may – apart from storage – only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

SSL or TLS Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests you send to us as the site operator.

An encrypted connection can be recognized by the fact that the browser’s address line changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

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

4. Data Collection on this Website
Cookies

Our website uses so-called “cookies.” Cookies are small data packages that do not cause any damage to your end device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your end device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

Cookies can come from us (first-party cookies) or from third-party companies (so-called third-party cookies). Third-party cookies enable the integration of certain services from third-party companies within websites (e.g., cookies for payment services).

Cookies serve various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g., the shopping cart function or the display of videos). Other cookies may be used to analyze user behavior or for advertising purposes.

Cookies that are necessary to carry out the electronic communication process, to provide certain functions you have requested (e.g., the shopping cart function), or to optimize the website (e.g., cookies to measure web audience) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services.

Where consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of this consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG); consent may be revoked at any time.

You can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Information on which cookies and services are used on this website can be found in this Privacy Policy.

5. Plugins and Tools
Google Fonts (Local Hosting)

This site uses so-called Google Fonts, which are provided by Google, for the uniform display of fonts. The Google Fonts are installed locally. No connection to Google servers takes place in this process.

Further information about Google Fonts can be found at:
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq

and in Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
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Google Maps

This site uses the Google Maps mapping service. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. With the help of this service, we can integrate map material on our website.

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission. If Google Maps is activated, Google may use Google Fonts for the uniform display of fonts. When you access Google Maps, your browser loads the required web fonts into its cache in order to correctly display text and fonts.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of presenting our online offers in an appealing way and ensuring easy findability of the places we indicate on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device (e.g., device fingerprinting). Consent may be revoked at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs). Details can be found here:

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/

More information on how user data is handled can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
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The company is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA that aims to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the USA. Each company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. Further information can be obtained from the provider at the following link:
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participant-detail?contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
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