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Responsible in the sense of the data protection laws, in particular the EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO):

Antje Pfundtner
Thedestraße 101A
D-22767 Hamburg
a.pfundtner@antjepfundtner.de

Your Rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time by contacting our data protection officer:

  • Information about your data stored with us and its processing (Art. 15 DSGVO),
  • Correcting incorrect personal data (Art. 16 DPA),
  • Deletion of your data we have stored (Art. 17 DSGVO),
  • Restriction on data processing, provided that we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 DSGVO),
  • Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 DSGVO) and
  • Data transferability, provided you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 DSGVO).

If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time; this also applies to future
use.

You may at any time submit a complaint to a supervisory authority, e.g. to the competent supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or to the authority responsible for us.

A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with their addresses can be found here: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

COLLECTION OF GENERAL INFORMATION WHEN VISITING OUR WEBSITE

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PROCESSING:

When you access our website, i.e. when you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature 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 other similar information.

They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring trouble-free connection to the website,
  • Ensuring smooth use of our website,
  • Evaluating system security and stability
  • as well as for other administrative purposes.

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about you. Information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in order to optimize our internet presence and its background technology.

LEGAL BASIS:

In accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, processing is based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

RECIPIENT:

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

PERIOD OF STORAGE:

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for the purposes of collection. This is generally the case for data implemented to enable the website to run when the respective session has ended.

PROVISION PRESCRIBED OR REQUIRED:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is not required by law or contract. Without the IP address, however, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, objections are excluded.

COOKIES

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PROCESSING:

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

This enables us to obtain certain data such as IP addresses, browsers used and operating systems.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. With the information contained in cookies, we can make navigation easier for you and enable the correct display of our website.

Under no circumstances will the data collected by us be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have deactivated the use of cookies.

STORAGE DURATION AND COOKIES USED:

If your browser settings or consent allow us to use cookies, the following cookies may be used on our websites.

Insofar as these cookies can (also) affect personal data, we will inform you about this in the following sections.

You can delete individual cookies or the entire cookie inventory via your browser settings. You will also receive information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance. Depending on the provider of your browser, you will find the necessary information under the following links

NEWSLETTER

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PROCESSING:

Your data will only be used to send the subscribed newsletter by e-mail to you. Your name is entered in order to address you personally in the newsletter and, if necessary, to identify you if you wish to exercise your rights as an affected person.

To receive the newsletter, it is sufficient to enter your e-mail address. If you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers can also be informed via e-mail about circumstances relevant to service or registration (e.g. changes to the newsletter offer or technical conditions).

For effective registration, we require a valid e-mail address. In order to verify that registration is actually performed by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the „double opt in“ procedure. For this purpose, we log that the newsletter was ordered, that a confirmation e-mail was sent and that the requested answer was received. Further data is not collected. The data will be used exclusively for sending the newsletter and will not be passed on to third parties.

LEGAL BASIS:

On the basis of your expressly granted consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO), we will send you our newsletter or comparable information regularly by e-mail to the e-mail address you have provided.

You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for sending the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. You will find a corresponding link in every newsletter. You can also unsubscribe at any time directly on this website or inform us of your revocation via the contact option given at the end of this data protection information.

RECIPIENT:

The recipients of the data may be processors.

STORAGE PERIOD:

The data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent has been obtained. Afterwards they will be deleted.

PROVISION IS MANDATORY OR NECESSARY:

Providing your personal data is voluntary and is solely based on your consent. Unfortunately, we cannot send you our newsletter without an existing consent.

CONTACT FORM

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PROCESSING:

The data you enter will be stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. For this purpose, it is necessary to enter a valid e-mail address and your name. This serves to assign the inquiry and to answer it afterwards. The specification of further data is optional.

LEGAL BASIS:

The data entered in the contact form is processed on the basis of a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

By providing the contact form, we would like to enable you to contact us in an uncomplicated manner. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your inquiry and for possible follow-up questions.

If you contact us in order to request an offer, the data entered in the contact form will be processed for the purpose of implementing pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO).

RECIPIENT:

The recipients of the data may be processors.

STORAGE PERIOD:

Data will be deleted at the latest 6 months after processing the request.

If a contractual relationship is established, we are subject to the legal retention periods according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) and will delete your data after these periods have expired.

PROVISION IS MANDATORY OR NECESSARY:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, we can only process your request if you provide us with your name, your e-mail address and the reason for the request.

EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEOS

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF PROCESSING:

On some of our websites we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter „YouTube“). When you visit a page with a YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube servers is established. This tells YouTube which pages you visit. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your surfing behavior to you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account first.

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

For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy, where you will also find further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). Google processes your data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

LEGAL BASIS:

The legal basis for the integration of YouTube and the associated data transfer to Google is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO).

RECIPIENTS:

The connection to YouTube automatically triggers a connection to Google.

STORAGE PERIOD AND REVOCATION OF CONSENT:

If you have disabled the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not be able to expect to receive such cookies when watching YouTube videos. YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection at „YouTube“ can be found in the data protection declaration of the provider at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

TRANSFER TO THIRD COUNTRIES:

Google processes your data in the USA and has subjected itself to the EU_US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

PROVISION IS PRESCRIBED OR NECESSARY:

The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely based on your consent. If you prevent access, this may result in functional restrictions on the website.

SSL ENCRYPTION

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

CHANGE OF OUR DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS

We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always meets the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. The new data protection declaration then applies to your next visit.

QUESTIONS TO THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

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

The data protection statement was created with the help of activeMind AG, experts for external data protection officers (Version #2019-04-10).