GDPR

General Information

The operator of this website collects, processes, and uses personal data of a user without further consent only to the extent necessary for contract initiation and execution, as well as for billing purposes.

Personal data are details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person (data subject). 

Collecting data means acquiring data by the data subject themselves. Processing includes storing and deleting, as well as modifying, blocking, and transmitting personal data. Use is any use of personal data that is not processing. If necessary, inventory and traffic data of the customer can be passed on to companies associated with the operator of the website. The operator of this website is entitled, in accordance with the applicable legal provisions, to provide information to law enforcement authorities and courts for the purposes of prosecution. The operator of this website may evaluate the inventory and traffic data of the customer for market research purposes or have it evaluated by third parties. The customer can object to this by contacting the data protection officer.

 

Inventory Data

Inventory data are personal data required to establish or modify the contractual relationship between the operator of this website and the user. This includes, among other things, the user's name and address, date of birth, telephone number, email address, and payment data.

The operator of this website will only forward inventory data to third parties if this is necessary for the provision of the service.

The operator of this website will process and use inventory data for advertising, customer advice, or market research purposes only to the extent necessary and if the user has consented to this. The user can revoke their consent at any time in writing.

The provision in §29 BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act) allows the commercial collection, storage, or modification of personal data for the purpose of transmission, particularly in connection with the activities of credit agencies. Credit agencies combine personal data obtained from various sources and transmit it to third parties. The operator of this website is obliged to provide the necessary data to such credit agencies.

 

Traffic Data

Traffic data are data that are collected, processed, or used in the provision of a telecommunications service. The operator of this website or a third party used by the operator of this website to provide telecommunications services collects traffic data to enable the use of these services and to be able to bill the respective user. Typically, the date and time as well as the time zone of the start and end of use, the volume in bytes, the IP address, and the type of telemedia service used are recorded. The aforementioned data will be stored for up to six months after sending the invoice, unless a longer storage period is provided for in the context of the statistics functions activated by the user. To the extent required by billing with other companies or with other service providers or by legal regulations, the operator of this website may use, store, and transmit traffic data.

 

Right to Information

The operator of this website will inform the user in writing, upon request and in accordance with legal requirements, whether and what personal data about them are stored. The data protection officer is available for this purpose and for further questions on data protection.

 

Website Tracking

This website partially uses so-called cookies. They serve to make the offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser, allowing the analysis of your use of the website. You can prevent the storage of these and the cookies mentioned below by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies". The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities, and to provide other services related to website and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The cookies are also used for the remarketing technology of Google Inc. This technology allows users who have already visited this website and are interested in the offer to be addressed again through targeted advertising on the pages of the Google partner network. If users have agreed that their web and app browsing history is linked by Google to their Google account and information from their Google account is used to personalize ads, the remarketing function is cross-device. To support this function, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated IDs of these users. These personal data are temporarily linked to Google Analytics data to form target groups. Google users can adjust their ad settings under "My Account" or disable personalized ads.

You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your truncated IP address) to 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]

In addition, Google Analytics collects reports on performance according to demographic characteristics and interest.

 

Social Plugins

This website uses various features from the social networks Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. By default, no data is transmitted to these services when you visit our website. On some pages, data transmission according to the following conditions may take place after setting a checkmark at the corresponding plugin or clicking on a corresponding link on the respective platform, without the function ("Recommend", "Tweet", "+1") itself being carried out.

 

YouTube

This website uses plugins from the Google-operated site YouTube. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to directly associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube's privacy policy at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy

 

SoundCloud

Our pages may include plugins from the social network SoundCloud (SoundCloud Limited, 33 St James Square, London SW1Y 4JS, UK). You can recognize the SoundCloud plugins by the SoundCloud logo on the affected pages. 

When you visit our pages, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established after activating the plugin. SoundCloud receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the "Like Button" or "Share Button" while logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link and/or share the contents of our pages with your SoundCloud profile. This allows SoundCloud to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by SoundCloud. Further information can be found in SoundCloud's privacy policy at https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy

If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our pages with your SoundCloud user account, please log out of your SoundCloud user account before activating content from the SoundCloud plugin.