Privacy Policy

Personal data within the meaning of these data protection provisions means individual information about your personal or factual circumstances. This includes in particular your name, your email address, your telephone number and, if applicable, your address, insofar as you have disclosed the latter to us.

Personal data also includes information about your use of our website. In this context, we collect personal data from you as follows: Information about your visits to our website, such as the extent of data transfer, the location from which you access data from our website, as well as other connection data and sources that you access. This is usually done through the use of log files and cookies. You can find more information about log files and cookies below.

Furthermore, data received from you in the context of individual communication, e.g. by email, is also included in the collected data.

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

1. To provide the online services you request,
2. To ensure that our website is presented to you in the most effective and interesting way possible;
3. To fulfill our obligations under any contracts concluded between you and us;
4. To inform you about changes to our services.

The collection of data is based on the legal basis of the provisions of Art. 6 GDPR.

Each time you access our website, we collect the following information about your computer: your computer's IP address, your browser's request and the time of this request. In addition, the status and the amount of data transferred as part of this request are recorded. We also collect product and version information about the browser used and your computer's operating system. We also record from which website access to our site was made. Your computer's IP address is only stored for the duration of your use of the website and is then immediately deleted or anonymized by truncation. The other data is stored for a limited period of time. We use this data to operate our website, in particular to detect and eliminate errors on the website, to determine the load on the website and to make adjustments or improvements.

We may also collect information about your use of our website through the use of so-called browser cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your storage medium and that store certain settings and data for exchange with our system via your browser. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain from which the cookie data was sent, as well as information about the age of the cookie and an alphanumeric identification character. Cookies enable our systems to recognize the user's device and make any presets immediately available. As soon as a user accesses the platform, a cookie is transmitted to the hard drive of the respective user's computer. Cookies help us to improve our website and to offer you a better and even more tailored service. They enable us to recognize your computer when you return to our website and thereby store information about your preferred activities on the website and thus align our website to your individual interests.

The cookies we use only store the data explained above about your use of the website. This is not done by assigning it to you personally, but by assigning an identification number to the cookie ("cookie ID"). The cookie ID is not combined with your name, your IP address or similar data that would allow the cookie to be assigned to you. If you do not wish to use browser cookies, you can set your browser so that the storage of cookies is not accepted. Please note that in this case you may only be able to use our website to a limited extent or not at all.

If we ask for your consent to process your personal data, the legal basis for the processing is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. Otherwise, storage is based on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality and security of our website.

We do not pass on your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to the data transfer/provision or we are entitled or obliged to do so due to statutory provisions and/or official or court orders. This may in particular involve the provision of your data for the purpose of concluding or performing contracts, for the provision of information for the purpose of criminal prosecution, for the prevention of danger or for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

If we do not provide your data, this could, for example, lead to the non-fulfillment of contractual services, extraordinary termination of the respective contract, cost and damage claims (also by third parties), and/or fines or even criminal prosecution resulting from violations of the law that may be associated with the non-provision of data.

Data that we receive from you in the context of individual communication or through use of the contact form on our website is stored by us for the following purposes:

1. To fulfill our obligations under any contracts concluded between you and us or to initiate such contracts
2. To process the inquiry and in case of any follow-up questions.

The legal basis for the collection of this data is either your consent to the processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR, the fact that the processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures that take place at your request and/or the processing pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. c) GDPR is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. This includes in particular commercial retention obligations for business correspondence. Furthermore, an ongoing customer relationship between you and us constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR.

You can revoke any consent given at any time by sending a brief message to the contact details provided in our imprint.

The data processed by us will be deleted or restricted in its processing in accordance with Art. 17 and 18 GDPR. Unless expressly stated in this privacy policy, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations. If the data is not deleted because it is required for other and legally permissible purposes, its processing will be restricted. This means that the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons.

According to legal requirements in Germany, retention is particularly for 10 years according to Sections 147 (1) AO, 257 (1) No. 1 and 4, (4) HGB (books, records, management reports, accounting documents, commercial books, documents relevant for taxation, etc.) and 6 years according to Section 257 (1) No. 2 and 3, (4) HGB (commercial letters).

You can view your personal data at any time free of charge and, if applicable, also request its correction and/or – if the existence of the data storage is not required for the purpose of contract fulfillment, statutory or legal requirements – deletion and/or just blocking. We recommend that before asserting any deletion claim against us, you may have backed up your data yourself if necessary. You may also have the rights to restriction of processing, objection to processing and data portability, which result from Art. 15 – 21 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Insofar as the processing is based on your separate consent, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

For the above purposes and/or to obtain more detailed information about this, please contact us using the contact details provided in the imprint of the website.

If you have any questions, comments or inquiries regarding the collection, processing and use of your personal data by us, please contact us as already explained using the contact details given in the imprint of this website. If you believe that the processing of your personal data by/through us is unlawful, you also have the right as a data subject to complain to one of the supervisory authorities also responsible under this provision in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR.