The controller in the sense of data protection laws, particularly the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Snejina Schuler

Your Data Subject Rights

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

  • Information about your data stored by us and its processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • Rectification of inaccurate personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
  • Erasure of your data stored by us (Art. 17 GDPR),
  • Restriction of data processing, provided we are not yet permitted to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
  • Data portability, provided you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).

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

You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, for example, with the competent supervisory authority of your federal state of residence or with the authority responsible for us as the controller.

Collection of General Information when Visiting Our Website

Type and Purpose of Processing:

When you access our website, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise submit information, general information is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address, and similar data.

They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a seamless connection to the website,
  • Ensuring seamless use of our website,
  • Evaluating system security and stability, and
  • for optimizing our website.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your identity. Information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us in an anonymized form to optimize our online presence and the underlying technology.

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest:

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage Duration:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose of its collection. For data used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session ends.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, individual services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is not possible.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website.

You can delete individual cookies or all cookies. Furthermore, you will find information and instructions on how these cookies can be deleted or their storage blocked in advance. Depending on your browser provider, you can find the necessary information under the following links:

Storage Duration and Cookies Used:

Provided you allow us to use cookies through your browser settings or consent, the following cookies may be used on our websites:

Technically Necessary Cookies

Type and Purpose of Processing:

We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some elements of our website require that the accessing browser can be identified even after a page change.

The purpose of using technically necessary cookies is to simplify website usage for users. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these functions, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.

We require cookies for the following applications:

Shopping cart
Saving language settings
Remembering search terms

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest:

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, based on our legitimate interest in a user-friendly design of our website.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without this data, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, individual services and features may not be available or may be restricted.

Objection

Please refer to the information on your right to object under Art. 21 GDPR below.

Non-essential cookies

Furthermore, we use cookies to better adapt the content on our website to the interests of our visitors or to generally improve it based on statistical analyses.

Please refer to the information below regarding the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis technologies used to see which providers set cookies.

Legal basis:

The legal basis for these processing operations is your consent, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

For further recipients, please refer to the information below regarding the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis technologies used.

Third-country transfer:

Information on this can be found in the listings of the individual display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis providers.

Provision Required or Necessary:

Naturally, you can generally view our website without cookies. Web browsers are usually set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings (see Withdrawal of Consent).

Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

Withdrawal of consent:

You can withdraw your consent at any time via our cookie consent tool.

Profiling:

For information on the extent to which we analyze the behavior of website visitors using pseudonymized user profiles, please refer to the details below regarding the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analysis technologies used.

Registration on our website

Type and Purpose of Processing:

For registration on our website, we require some personal data, which is transmitted to us via an input form.

At the time of registration, the following data is additionally collected:

IP address,

Your registration is required to provide certain content and services on our website.

Legal basis:

The processing of data entered during registration is based on the user's consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Storage Duration:

In this context, data will only be processed as long as the corresponding consent is present.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. Without providing your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our offered content.

Provision of paid services

Type and Purpose of Processing:

To provide paid services, we request additional data, such as payment information, to process your order.

Legal basis:

The processing of data required for the conclusion of the contract is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include processors.

Storage Duration:

We store this data in our systems until the statutory retention periods have expired. These are generally 6 or 10 years for reasons of proper accounting and tax law requirements.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without providing your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our offered content and services.

Comment function

Type and Purpose of Processing:

When users leave comments on our website, in addition to this information, the time of their creation and the username previously chosen by the website visitor are stored. This serves our security, as we can be held liable for unlawful content on our website, even if it was created by users.

Legal basis:

The processing of data entered as comments is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

By providing the comment function, we aim to enable easy interaction. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing the inquiry and for potential follow-up questions.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include processors.

Storage Duration:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose of its collection. This is generally the case when communication with the user is complete and the company can infer from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified. We reserve the right to delete data without stating reasons and without prior or subsequent notification.

Furthermore, you can have your comment deleted by us at any time. To do so, please send an email to the data protection officer or the person responsible for data protection listed below, and provide the link to your comment as well as the email address used when creating the comment for identification purposes.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. Without providing your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our comment function.

Newsletter

Type and Purpose of Processing:

For the delivery of our newsletter, we collect personal data that is transmitted to us via an input form.

For effective registration, we require a valid email address. To verify that a registration is indeed made by the owner of an email address, we use the "double opt-in" procedure. For this purpose, we log the newsletter registration, the sending of a confirmation email, and the receipt of the requested response. No further data is collected.

Legal basis:

Based on your explicitly given consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR), we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information via email to your provided email address.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for newsletter dispatch at any time with future effect. A corresponding link can be found in every newsletter. Furthermore, you can unsubscribe directly on this website at any time or inform us of your revocation via the contact option provided at the end of this privacy policy.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may include processors.

Storage Duration:

In this context, data will only be processed as long as the corresponding consent is present. Afterwards, it will be deleted.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary, based solely on your consent. Without existing consent, we unfortunately cannot send you our newsletter.

Withdrawal of consent:

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for newsletter dispatch at any time with future effect. Unsubscription can be requested via the link included in every email or from the data protection officer or the person responsible for data protection listed below.

Use of Google Analytics

If you have given your consent, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies," which are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and at https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator.

Data sent by us and linked to cookies, user identifiers (e.g., user ID), or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.

Withdrawal of consent:

You can prevent tracking by Google Analytics on our website by clicking this link. An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent future collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Furthermore, you can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings; however, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to fully use all functions of this website.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as Google's processing of this data, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: Browser Add On for Disabling Google Analytics.

Use of Script Libraries (Google Webfonts)

To display our content correctly and graphically appealing across all browsers, we use "Google Web Fonts" from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google") on this website for font display.

Further information on Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Use of Google Maps

This website uses Google Maps. Google Maps is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to use the map function conveniently.
Further information about data processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy notices: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There, in the Privacy Center, you can also change your personal data protection settings.

Detailed instructions on managing your own data in connection with Google products can be found here: https://www.dataliberation.org

By visiting the website, Google receives information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or if no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be directly associated with your account.

If you do not wish for this association with your profile on Google, you must log out of Google before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research, and/or the needs-based design of its websites. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (even for users not logged in) to provide needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and to exercise this right, you must contact Google.

Withdrawal of consent:

The provider currently does not offer an easy opt-out or a way to block data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website, or only to a limited extent.

Embedded YouTube Videos

We embed YouTube videos on our website. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter "YouTube"). YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "Google"). When you visit a page with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. YouTube is informed which pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can associate your browsing behavior with you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account beforehand.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior.

Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policies. There you will also find further information on your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

Withdrawal of consent:

The provider currently does not offer an easy opt-out or a way to block data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website, or only to a limited extent.

Social Plugins

Social plugins from the providers listed below are used on our website. You can recognize these plugins by their respective logos.

These plugins may transmit information, which can include personal data, to the service provider, and this data may be used by them. We prevent the unconscious and unwanted collection and transmission of data to the service provider through a 2-click solution. To activate a desired social plugin, it must first be activated by clicking the corresponding button. Only through this activation of the plugin is the collection of information and its transmission to the service provider triggered. We ourselves do not collect any personal data through the social plugins or their use.

We have no influence over what data an activated plugin collects and how it is used by the provider. Currently, it must be assumed that a direct connection to the provider's services is established, and at least the IP address and device-related information are collected and used. There is also the possibility that service providers attempt to store cookies on the computer being used. For specific data collected and how it is used, please refer to the privacy notices of the respective service provider. Note: If you are simultaneously logged in to Facebook, Facebook may identify you as a visitor to a specific page.

We have integrated social media buttons from the following companies on our website:

Google AdWords

Our website uses Google Conversion Tracking. The operating company for Google AdWords services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. If you have reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google AdWords will set a cookie on your computer. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an advertisement placed by Google.

If the user visits certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that the user clicked on the advertisement and was redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Therefore, cookies cannot be tracked across the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users.

Further information on data processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There, you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center.

Withdrawal of consent:

The provider currently does not offer an easy opt-out or a way to block data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website, or only to a limited extent.

Use of Google Remarketing

This website uses the remarketing function of Google Inc. The operating company for Google Remarketing services is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Google”).

The function serves to present interest-based advertisements to website visitors within the Google advertising network. A so-called “cookie” is stored in the website visitor's browser, which allows the visitor to be recognized when they access websites belonging to Google's advertising network. On these pages, advertisements can be presented to the visitor that relate to content the visitor previously viewed on websites using Google's remarketing function.

Further information on data processing by Google can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. There, you can also change your personal privacy settings in the Privacy Center.

Withdrawal of consent:

The provider currently does not offer an easy opt-out or a way to block data transmission. If you want to prevent tracking of your activities on our website, please revoke your consent for the corresponding cookie category or all technically unnecessary cookies and data transmissions in the cookie consent tool. In this case, however, you may not be able to use our website, or only to a limited extent.

SSL Encryption

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

Information on Your Right to Object According to Art. 21 GDPR

Case-Specific Right to Object

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing based on a balancing of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Recipient of an Objection

Snejina Schuler

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

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

Questions for the Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly:

Snejina Schuler

This privacy policy was created with the help of activeMind AG, experts for external data protection officers (Version #2020-09-30).