Data Protection

PREAMBLE

Protecting the personal and other sensitive data provided by the customer is an important concern for me, These privacy policies ensure compliance with data protection regulations.

1. GENERAL

1.1 What are Personal Data

Personal data are information that disclose or can disclose the identity of the user. We adhere to the principle of data minimization. The collection of personal data is avoided as much as possible.

1.2 Handling Personal Data

Personal data are used solely for establishing, shaping the content, executing, or terminating the contractual relationship (Art. 6 I b GDPR). Additionally, personal data are only processed with your consent (Art. 6 I a GDPR). They are generally not passed on to third parties. The processing of your personal data takes place exclusively within the EU.

1.3 Usage Data

General technical information is collected when visiting the website. This includes the used IP address, time, duration of the visit, browser type, and possibly the referring page. These usage data are technically recorded in a log file and can be used and stored for statistical evaluation purposes of this website. These usage data are not linked to your other personal data.

1.4 Registration Data

To fully utilize the functions of this website, registration is required. The registration data is collected through your specific entries and used for the explicitly stated purpose according to your consent (Art. 6 I a GDPR).

1.5 Duration of Storage

Your personal data is only stored as long as necessary based on legal (especially tax-related) requirements after the purpose for which the data were collected ends.

2. YOUR RIGHTS

2.1 Information

You can request information from me about whether your personal data is processed, and if so, you have a right to information about these personal data and the further information listed in Art. 15 GDPR.

2.2 Right to Rectification

You are entitled to rectify incorrect personal data concerning you and can request the completion of incomplete personal data pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR.

2.3 Right to Deletion

You are entitled to demand the immediate deletion of personal data concerning you. We are obliged to delete these without delay, especially if one of the following reasons applies:

- Your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
- You revoke your consent on which the processing is based, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
- Your data was processed unlawfully.

The right to deletion does not exist if your personal data are necessary for the assertion, exercise, or defence of our legal claims.

2.4 Right to Restrict Processing

You are entitled to request the restriction of processing of your personal data if:

- You contest the accuracy of the data, and we need to verify its accuracy.
- The processing is unlawful, and you oppose the deletion and instead request the restriction of use.
- We no longer need the data, but you require them for the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
- You have objected to the processing of your data, and it is not yet determined whether our legitimate reasons override yours.

2.5 Right to Data Portability

You are entitled to receive your provided personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us, provided the processing is based on consent or a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means.

2.6 Right to Withdraw Consent

If the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you are entitled to withdraw this consent at any time.

2.7 General and Right to Complain

The exercise of your aforementioned rights is generally free of charge for you. You are entitled to contact the supervisory authority responsible for us, the state data protection commissioner, directly in case of complaints.

3. DATA SECURITY

3.1 Data Security

All data on our website are secured through technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification, and dissemination.

3.2 Sessions and Cookies

To operate the website, we may use cookies or server-side sessions where data can be stored. Cookies serve, for example, for personal greetings with the member's name. Cookies are files placed on your hard drive by a website to automatically recognize this computer the next time it visits the site and thus adapt the website's use to you. Some of the used cookies are deleted after the end of the browser session. These are so-called session cookies. Other cookies remain on your device and enable the recognition of the browser during a later visit to our website (persistent cookies). You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and individually decide on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally. Please note that some features of this website may not be usable if cookies are deactivated. We ensure that no personal data from sessions or through cookies are taken over and that cookies are only used if necessary for the website. Thus, there are no overriding interests on your part that contradict this (Art. 6 I f GDPR).

4. NEWSLETTER

If you sign up for my newsletter, I will use the data required for this or separately provided by you to regularly send you our email newsletter. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, either by sending a message to me using the contact options provided in the legal notice or via the link provided in the newsletter.

5. SERVICE OF THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS

5.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"), and collects and stores data via this web analytics service, from which usage profiles are created using pseudonyms. These usage profiles are used to evaluate visitor behaviour to design and improve the offer on this website as needed. Google Analytics uses "cookies," small text files stored on your computer, to help analyse how you use the site. 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, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, 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. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google. Also, the pseudonymized usage profiles are not combined with personal data about the user without the user's explicit and separately declared consent. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent in this case. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

You can view Google's privacy policy at http://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/. For more information on terms of use and privacy, see http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html and http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. We point out that on this website, Google Analytics has been extended by the code "anonymizeIp" to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

5.2 Social Media Links and Social Sharing

I have social media pages that can be reached through links from this website. By using these links, you access the respective third-party provider's websites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google+) and can share our content. Once you access the third-party provider's site, you are in their responsibility area, and their privacy policy or data usage declarations apply. We have no control over this, but we recommend logging out from the respective third-party provider to avoid unnecessary data transmission before using a corresponding link. This can prevent usage profiles from being created by the third-party provider.

5.3 Use of Facebook Plugins

Plugins of the social network www.facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”), are used on this website. The responsible party for the processing of the information collected by Facebook is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

When you activate such a plugin on our website, a connection to Facebook servers is established. This will transmit to the Facebook server which of our internet pages you have visited. If you are logged in to Facebook as a member, Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. When using the plugin functions (e.g., clicking the "Like" button, using the Messenger function, submitting a comment), this information is also assigned to your Facebook account, which you can only prevent by logging out before activating the plugin. For more information on the collection and use of data by Facebook, your rights in this regard, and ways to protect your privacy, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

5.4 Use of Google +1

This website gives you the opportunity to publish information worldwide using the Google +1 button, operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphithe