Privacy Policy

1. Privacy at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. Detailed information on data protection can be found in the privacy policy set out below.

Data Collection on This Website

Who is responsible for collecting data on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the operator’s contact details in the section “Information on the Data Controller” in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

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

Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website, or after you have given your consent. This primarily includes technical data, such as your internet browser, operating system or the time at which you accessed the page. This data is collected automatically as soon as you access this website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure that the website functions correctly and securely. Other data is processed to statistically analyse how the website is used. Further details can be found in the relevant sections of this privacy policy.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about the origin, recipients 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 your consent to data processing, you may withdraw that consent at any time with effect 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 regarding these matters or any other questions about data protection.

Analytics Tools and Third-Party Tools

When you visit this website, your browsing behaviour may be statistically analysed. This is primarily done using so-called analytics programmes.

Detailed information about these analytics programmes can be found in the following privacy policy.

2. Hosting

We host the content of our website with the following provider:

IONOS

The provider is IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany (hereinafter referred to as “IONOS”).

When you visit our website, IONOS collects various log files, including your IP addresses.

For details, please refer to IONOS’s privacy policy:

https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy

The use of IONOS is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring that our website is displayed as reliably as possible.

If the relevant consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent covers the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device, such as device fingerprinting, within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.

Data Processing Agreement

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service.

This is a contract required under data protection law that ensures that the personal data of our website visitors is processed only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. General Information and Mandatory Disclosures

Data Protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various types of personal data are collected. Personal data is data that can be used to identify you personally.

This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purposes this is done.

Please note that data transmission over the internet, for example when communicating by email, may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the Data Controller

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

Pascal Orians
Daimlerstr. 20A
90599 Dietenhofen
Germany

Email:

The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing personal data, such as names, email addresses or similar information.

Data Retention

Unless a more specific retention period is stated in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for processing it no longer applies.

If you submit a legitimate request for deletion or withdraw your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for retaining it, such as tax or commercial retention periods. In the latter case, deletion will take place once those reasons no longer apply.

General Information on the Legal Bases for Data Processing on This Website

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, where special categories of personal data under Article 9(1) GDPR are processed.

If you have expressly consented to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing is also based on Article 49(1)(a) GDPR.

If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to access to information on your device, for example through device fingerprinting, data processing is additionally based on Section 25(1) TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.

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

We also process your data if this is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation, on the basis of Article 6(1)(c) GDPR.

Data processing may also be carried out on the basis of our legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

The applicable legal basis in each individual case is explained in the following sections of this privacy policy.

Withdrawal of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent.

You may withdraw consent that you have already given at any time. The lawfulness of data processing carried out before the withdrawal remains unaffected.

Right to Object to Data Collection in Specific Cases and to Direct Marketing (Article 21 GDPR)

IF DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ARTICLE 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS.

THE RESPECTIVE 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 THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR SUCH MARKETING. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING INSOFAR AS IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING.

IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES (OBJECTION UNDER ARTICLE 21(2) GDPR).

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of their habitual residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

This right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract, either for yourself or for transfer to a third party, in a commonly used, machine-readable format.

If you request the direct transfer of data to another controller, this will only be carried out where technically feasible.

Access, Rectification and Erasure

Within the scope of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing. Where applicable, you also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data.

You can contact us at any time regarding these matters or any other questions about personal data.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time to exercise this right.

The right to restriction of processing applies in the following cases:

If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored by us, we generally 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 or is unlawful, you may request the restriction of data processing instead of the erasure of the data.
If we no longer need your personal data, but you require it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of processing instead of erasure.
If you have lodged an objection under Article 21(1) GDPR, a balancing of your interests against ours must be carried out. Until it has 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 being stored, only be processed with your consent, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, 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/TLS Encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption.

You can recognise an encrypted connection by the change in the browser’s address bar from “http://” to “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser.

When SSL/TLS encryption is enabled, 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 files that do not cause any damage to your device.

They are either stored on your device temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (persistent cookies).

Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Persistent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or your web browser deletes them automatically.

Cookies may originate from us (first-party cookies) or from third-party companies (so-called third-party cookies).

Third-party cookies enable certain services provided by third-party companies to be integrated into websites.

Cookies have various functions. Many cookies are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them.

Other cookies may be used to analyse user behaviour.

Cookies that are necessary to carry out electronic communication, provide certain functions you have requested or optimise the website, such as cookies used to measure website traffic, are stored on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified.

The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing necessary cookies to ensure the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services.

If consent has been requested for the storage of cookies and similar recognition technologies, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of that consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG). Consent may be withdrawn at any time.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set, to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser.

If cookies are disabled, the functionality of this website may be limited.

If additional cookies and services are used on this website, this will be explained in this privacy policy.

Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, the information you provide in the enquiry form, including the contact details you enter there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in case of follow-up questions.

We will not share this data without your consent.

This data is processed to handle your enquiry on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to process incoming enquiries and communicate with you about them.

The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request its deletion or the purpose for storing it no longer applies, for example after your enquiry has been fully processed.

Mandatory statutory provisions, particularly retention periods, remain unaffected.

5. Web Analytics

IONOS WebAnalytics

This website uses the analytics services of IONOS WebAnalytics (hereinafter referred to as “IONOS”).

The provider is 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Straße 57, D-56410 Montabaur, Germany.

As part of its analytics services, IONOS may analyse visitor numbers and behaviour, such as the number of page views, the duration of website visits and bounce rates; visitor sources, meaning the website from which a visitor arrives; visitor locations; and technical data, such as browser and operating system versions.

For this purpose, IONOS stores, in particular, the following data:

Referrer (previously visited website)
Requested webpage or file
Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Device type used
Time of access
IP address in anonymised form (used only to determine the location of access)

According to IONOS, data collection is fully anonymised, meaning that it cannot be traced back to individual persons.

IONOS WebAnalytics does not store cookies.

The data is stored and analysed on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Our legitimate interest is the statistical analysis of the use of our website in order to improve and further develop our online services.

Further information about data collection and processing by IONOS WebAnalytics can be found in the IONOS privacy policy at the following link:

https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/datenschutzerklaerung

Data Processing Agreement

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service.

WP Statistics

This website uses the WP Statistics analytics tool to statistically evaluate visitor access.

The provider is Veronalabs, Tatari 64, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia: https://veronalabs.com

WP Statistics enables us to analyse how our website is used.

WP Statistics collects, among other things, log files containing IP addresses, referrers, browsers used, the user’s origin and the search engine used, as well as actions performed by website visitors, such as clicks and views.

The data collected by WP Statistics is stored exclusively on our own server.

The use of this analytics tool is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Our legitimate interest is the statistical analysis of the use of our website in order to improve and further develop our online services.

If consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG, insofar as the consent covers the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s device, such as device fingerprinting, within the meaning of the TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.

IP Anonymisation

We use WP Statistics with IP anonymisation enabled.

Your IP address is shortened so that it can no longer be directly associated with you.

6. Plugins and Tools

Ninja Firewall

We have integrated Ninja Firewall into this website.

The provider is NinTechNet Limited, Unit 1603, 16th Floor, The L. Plaza, 367–375 Queen’s Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong (hereinafter referred to as “Ninja Firewall”).

Ninja Firewall is used to protect our website against unauthorised access and malicious cyberattacks.

For this purpose, Ninja Firewall collects the IP address, request, referrer and time of access to the page.

Ninja Firewall is integrated into our own servers and does not transmit personal data to the provider of the tool or to any other third parties.

We have enabled IP anonymisation in Ninja Firewall so that the tool only collects shortened IP addresses.

The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its website as effectively as possible against cyberattacks.

The use of Ninja Firewall is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

SilentShield (Spam Protection)

We have integrated the SilentShield plugin to protect our forms.

SilentShield uses a maths CAPTCHA and IP-based rate limiting. These measures are intended to detect and limit automated or abusive form submissions.

For this purpose, the IP address of the accessing device is processed in pseudonymised form. This processing serves exclusively to protect our website and forms against spam, automated access and other misuse.

The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its website as effectively as possible against cyberattacks.

The use of SilentShield is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Real Cookie Banner

We use the “Real Cookie Banner” consent tool to manage the cookies and similar technologies used on this website, as well as the associated consents. Details about how “Real Cookie Banner” works can be found at https://devowl.io/de/rcb/datenverarbeitung/.

The legal bases for processing personal data in this context are Article 6(1)(c) GDPR and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of the cookies and similar technologies used and the associated consents.

Providing personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for entering into a contract. You are not obliged to provide personal data. If you do not provide your personal data, we will be unable to manage your consents.

Polylang (Language Switcher)

We use the Polylang WordPress plugin to provide our website in multiple languages.

The provider is WP SYNTEX, 8 rue Joseph Cugnot, 38307 Bourgoin Jallieu, France.

Polylang uses the pll_language cookie to store the language selected by the visitor. This allows the website to be displayed in the preferred language on a subsequent visit. The cookie contains the language identifier of the last page visited.

The default storage period is one year.

Polylang is used to provide a user-friendly, multilingual presentation of our website. Where personal data is processed, this is done on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

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