With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter also referred to as „data“). Personal data is all data that has a personal connection to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail address or your user behavior. The 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 provided by us.

Processing of your data as part 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 the processing of your data is based on the contractual or pre-contractual relationships between us. In this sense, the data processed by us includes all data that you provide or have provided for the purpose of using the contractual or pre-contractual services and that are required to process your inquiry or the contract concluded between us. Unless otherwise stated in the further information in this data protection declaration, the processing of your data and its transfer to third parties is limited to the data required to answer your inquiries and/or to fulfill the contract concluded between you and us, to protect our rights and are necessary and appropriate for the fulfillment of legal obligations. We will inform you which data is required for this before or as part of the data collection. Insofar as we use third-party providers to provide our services, the data protection notices of the respective third-party providers apply.

Affected data:

• 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. subject of contract, duration of contract)

Affected persons: Interested parties, business and contractual partners

Purpose of processing: Handling contractual services, communication and answering contact requests, office and organizational procedures

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

Your rights according to the GDPR

According to the GDPR, 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 privacy policy:

• Right to information: You have the right to request information from us, whether and which data we process from you.
• Right to rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate data or the completion of incomplete data.
• Right to erasure: You have the right to request the erasure of your data.
• Right to restriction: In certain cases, you have the right to request that we only process your data to a limited extent.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transmit your data to you or another person responsible in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
• Right of appeal: You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority at your usual place of residence, your workplace or our company headquarters is responsible.

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 under Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If you make use of your right of objection, we 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.

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

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

When do we delete your data?

We delete your data when we no longer need them or when you tell us to do so. This means that – unless otherwise stated in the individual data protection notices of this data protection declaration – we will delete your data,

• if the purpose of the data processing no longer applies and the legal basis specified in the individual data protection notices no longer exists, e.g.
  • after termination of the existing contractual or membership relationship between us (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or
  • after our legitimate interest in the further processing or storage of your data has ceased to exist (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR),
• if you make use of your right of withdrawal and no other legal basis for processing within the meaning of Article 6 (1) lit. b-f GDPR applies,
• if you make use of your right to object and there are no compelling reasons worthy of protection to prevent deletion.

If we still 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 documents) or the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims from contractual relationships (up to four years) or the data is used to protect the rights of another natural or legal person, we will only delete (part of) your data after these periods have expired. However, until these periods expire, we limit the processing of this data to these purposes (fulfillment of storage obligations).

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files consisting of a series of numbers and letters that are filed and saved on the end device you are using. Cookies are primarily used to exchange information between the end device you are using and our website. These include i.a. the language settings on a website, the login status or the point at which a video was viewed.

When you visit our website, two types of cookies are used:

• Temporary cookies (session cookies): These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
• Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the browser is closed. This allows 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 saved 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 with regard to their purpose:

• Necessary cookies: These are cookies that are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website, to save logins or shopping carts for the duration of your session, or cookies that are set for security reasons.
• Statistics, marketing and personalization cookies: These are cookies that are used for analysis or audience measurement purposes. Such “tracking” cookies can store information about search terms entered or the frequency of page views. In addition, the surfing behavior of an individual user (e.g. viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) can also be stored in a user profile. Such profiles are used to show users content that matches their potential interests. If we use services that store cookies on your end device for statistical, marketing and personalization purposes, we will inform you about this separately in the following sections of our data protection declaration or when obtaining your consent.

Data affected:

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

Persons affected: Users of our online offers

Processing purpose: Playing out our website, ensuring the operation of our website, improving our website, communication and marketing

Legal basis:
Legitimate interest, Art. 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR
If we do not obtain your consent to the setting of cookies, we will support the processing of your data based on our legitimate interest in improving the quality and user-friendliness of our website, in particular the content and functions. You have to object to the use of cookies set by us within the scope of our legitimate interest via the security settings of your browser. There you have the option of specifying whether you do not accept cookies from the outset or only accept them on request, or whether you want cookies to be deleted each time you close your browser. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all the functions of the website to their full extent.

Safety measures

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

Updating and changing this privacy policy

This data protection declaration is currently valid (December 2022). Due to changed legal or official requirements, it may be necessary to update this data protection declaration.

This privacy policy was created with the help of the privacy policy generator from SOS Recht. SOS Recht is an offer from Mueller.legal Rechtsanwälte based in Berlin.