1. An over­view of data pro­tec­tion

Gen­er­al inform­a­tion

The fol­low­ing inform­a­tion will provide you with an easy to nav­ig­ate over­view of what will hap­pen with your per­son­al data when you vis­it this web­site. The term “per­son­al data” com­prises all data that can be used to per­son­ally identi­fy you. For detailed inform­a­tion about the sub­ject mat­ter of data pro­tec­tion, please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Declar­a­tion, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data record­ing on this web­site

Who is the respons­ible party for the record­ing of data on this web­site (i.e., the “con­trol­ler”)?

The data on this web­site is pro­cessed by the oper­at­or of the web­site, whose con­tact inform­a­tion is avail­able under sec­tion “Inform­a­tion about the respons­ible party (referred to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)” in this Pri­vacy Policy.

How do we record your data?

We col­lect your data as a res­ult of your shar­ing of your data with us. This may, for instance be inform­a­tion you enter into our con­tact form.

Oth­er data shall be recor­ded by our IT sys­tems auto­mat­ic­ally or after you con­sent to its record­ing dur­ing your web­site vis­it. This data com­prises primar­ily tech­nic­al inform­a­tion (e.g., web browser, oper­at­ing sys­tem, or time the site was accessed). This inform­a­tion is recor­ded auto­mat­ic­ally when you access this web­site.

What are the pur­poses we use your data for?

A por­tion of the inform­a­tion is gen­er­ated to guar­an­tee the error free pro­vi­sion of the web­site. Oth­er data may be used to ana­lyze your user pat­terns. If con­tracts can be con­cluded or ini­ti­ated via the web­site, the trans­mit­ted data will also be pro­cessed for con­tract offers, orders or oth­er order enquir­ies.

What rights do you have as far as your inform­a­tion is con­cerned?

You have the right to receive inform­a­tion about the source, recip­i­ents, and pur­poses of your archived per­son­al data at any time without hav­ing to pay a fee for such dis­clos­ures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rec­ti­fied or erad­ic­ated. If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­cessing, you have the option to revoke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future data pro­cessing. Moreover, you have the right to demand that the pro­cessing of your data be restric­ted under cer­tain cir­cum­stances. Fur­ther­more, you have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pet­ent super­vising agency.

Please do not hes­it­ate to con­tact us at any time if you have ques­tions about this or any oth­er data pro­tec­tion related issues.

Ana­lys­is tools and tools provided by third parties

There is a pos­sib­il­ity that your brows­ing pat­terns will be stat­ist­ic­ally ana­lyzed when your vis­it this web­site. Such ana­lyses are per­formed primar­ily with what we refer to as ana­lys­is pro­grams.

For detailed inform­a­tion about these ana­lys­is pro­grams please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Declar­a­tion below.

2. Host­ing

We are host­ing the con­tent of our web­site at the fol­low­ing pro­vider:

Stra­to

The pro­vider is Stra­to AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Ber­lin (here­in­after referred to as “Stra­to”). When you vis­it our web­site, Stra­to records vari­ous log­files, includ­ing your IP addresses.

For more inform­a­tion, please con­sult the Stra­to Data Pri­vacy Policy: https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/.

Stra­to is used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legit­im­ate interest in a depic­tion of our web­site that is as reli­able as pos­sible. If appro­pri­ate con­sent has been obtained, the pro­cessing is car­ried out exclus­ively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the stor­age of cook­ies or the access to inform­a­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­print­ing) with­in the mean­ing of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revoked at any time.

3. Gen­er­al inform­a­tion and man­dat­ory inform­a­tion

Data pro­tec­tion

The oper­at­ors of this web­site and its pages take the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data very ser­i­ously. Hence, we handle your per­son­al data as con­fid­en­tial inform­a­tion and in com­pli­ance with the stat­utory data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions and this Data Pro­tec­tion Declar­a­tion.

Whenev­er you use this web­site, a vari­ety of per­son­al inform­a­tion will be col­lec­ted. Per­son­al data com­prises data that can be used to per­son­ally identi­fy you. This Data Pro­tec­tion Declar­a­tion explains which data we col­lect as well as the pur­poses we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which pur­pose the inform­a­tion is col­lec­ted.

We here­with advise you that the trans­mis­sion of data via the Inter­net (i.e., through e‑mail com­mu­nic­a­tions) may be prone to secur­ity gaps. It is not pos­sible to com­pletely pro­tect data against third-party access.

Inform­a­tion about the respons­ible party (referred to as the “con­trol­ler” in the GDPR)

The data pro­cessing con­trol­ler on this web­site is:

KMTC Vor­ti­fer Tech­no­lo­gies GmbH
Daimler­str. 2
D‑70736 Fell­bach

Phone: +49 711 30 55 93 40
E‑mail: post@kmtc-technologies.com

The con­trol­ler is the nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al entity that single-handedly or jointly with oth­ers makes decisions as to the pur­poses of and resources for the pro­cessing of per­son­al data (e.g., names, e‑mail addresses, etc.).

Stor­age dur­a­tion

Unless a more spe­cif­ic stor­age peri­od has been spe­cified in this pri­vacy policy, your per­son­al data will remain with us until the pur­pose for which it was col­lec­ted no longer applies. If you assert a jus­ti­fied request for dele­tion or revoke your con­sent to data pro­cessing, your data will be deleted, unless we have oth­er leg­ally per­miss­ible reas­ons for stor­ing your per­son­al data (e.g., tax or com­mer­cial law reten­tion peri­ods); in the lat­ter case, the dele­tion will take place after these reas­ons cease to apply.

Gen­er­al inform­a­tion on the leg­al basis for the data pro­cessing on this web­site

If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­cessing, we pro­cess your per­son­al data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2)(a) GDPR, if spe­cial cat­egor­ies of data are pro­cessed accord­ing to Art. 9 (1) DSGVO. In the case of expli­cit con­sent to the trans­fer of per­son­al data to third coun­tries, the data pro­cessing is also based on Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR. If you have con­sen­ted to the stor­age of cook­ies or to the access to inform­a­tion in your end device (e.g., via device fin­ger­print­ing), the data pro­cessing is addi­tion­ally based on § 25 (1) TDDDG. The con­sent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or for the imple­ment­a­tion of pre-con­trac­tu­al meas­ures, we pro­cess your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Fur­ther­more, if your data is required for the ful­fill­ment of a leg­al oblig­a­tion, we pro­cess it on the basis of Art. 6(1)© GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the data pro­cessing may be car­ried out on the basis of our legit­im­ate interest accord­ing to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Inform­a­tion on the rel­ev­ant leg­al basis in each indi­vidu­al case is provided in the fol­low­ing para­graphs of this pri­vacy policy.

Inform­a­tion on the data trans­fer to third-party coun­tries that are not secure under data pro­tec­tion law and the trans­fer to US com­pan­ies that are not DPF-cer­ti­fied

We use, among oth­er tech­no­lo­gies, tools from com­pan­ies loc­ated in third-party coun­tries that are not safe under data pro­tec­tion law, as well as US tools whose pro­viders are not cer­ti­fied under the EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work (DPF). If these tools are enabled, your per­son­al data may be trans­ferred to and pro­cessed in these coun­tries. We would like you to note that no level of data pro­tec­tion com­par­able to that in the EU can be guar­an­teed in third coun­tries that are insec­ure in terms of data pro­tec­tion law.

We would like to point out that the US, as a secure third-party coun­try, gen­er­ally has a level of data pro­tec­tion com­par­able to that of the EU. Data trans­fer to the US is there­fore per­mit­ted if the recip­i­ent is cer­ti­fied under the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF) or has appro­pri­ate addi­tion­al assur­ances. Inform­a­tion on trans­fers to third-party coun­tries, includ­ing the data recip­i­ents, can be found in this Pri­vacy Policy.

Recip­i­ents of per­son­al data

In the scope of our busi­ness activ­it­ies, we cooper­ate with vari­ous extern­al parties. In some cases, this also requires the trans­fer of per­son­al data to these extern­al parties. We only dis­close per­son­al data to extern­al parties if this is required as part of the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract, if we are leg­ally oblig­ated to do so (e.g., dis­clos­ure of data to tax author­it­ies), if we have a legit­im­ate interest in the dis­clos­ure pur­su­ant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR, or if anoth­er leg­al basis per­mits the dis­clos­ure of this data. When using pro­cessors, we only dis­close per­son­al data of our cus­tom­ers on the basis of a val­id con­tract on data pro­cessing. In the case of joint pro­cessing, a joint pro­cessing agree­ment is con­cluded.

Revoc­a­tion of your con­sent to the pro­cessing of data

A wide range of data pro­cessing trans­ac­tions are pos­sible only sub­ject to your express con­sent. You can also revoke at any time any con­sent you have already giv­en us. This shall be without pre­ju­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data col­lec­tion that occurred pri­or to your revoc­a­tion.

Right to object to the col­lec­tion of data in spe­cial cases; right to object to dir­ect advert­ising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IN THE EVENT THAT DATA ARE PRO­CESSED ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AT ANY TIME OBJECT TO THE PRO­CESSING OF YOUR PER­SON­AL DATA BASED ON GROUNDS ARISING FROM YOUR UNIQUE SITU­ATION. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ANY PRO­FIL­ING BASED ON THESE PRO­VI­SIONS. TO DETERM­INE THE LEG­AL BASIS, ON WHICH ANY PRO­CESSING OF DATA IS BASED, PLEASE CON­SULT THIS DATA PRO­TEC­TION DECLAR­A­TION. IF YOU LOG AN OBJEC­TION, WE WILL NO LONGER PRO­CESS YOUR AFFECTED PER­SON­AL DATA, UNLESS WE ARE IN A POS­I­TION TO PRESENT COM­PEL­LING PRO­TEC­TION WORTHY GROUNDS FOR THE PRO­CESSING OF YOUR DATA, THAT OUT­WEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PUR­POSE OF THE PRO­CESSING IS THE CLAIM­ING, EXER­CISING OR DEFENCE OF LEG­AL ENTI­TLE­MENTS (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

IF YOUR PER­SON­AL DATA IS BEING PRO­CESSED IN ORDER TO ENGAGE IN DIR­ECT ADVERT­ISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PRO­CESSING OF YOUR AFFECTED PER­SON­AL DATA FOR THE PUR­POSES OF SUCH ADVERT­ISING AT ANY TIME. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PRO­FIL­ING TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS AFFIL­I­ATED WITH SUCH DIR­ECT ADVERT­ISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PER­SON­AL DATA WILL SUB­SEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR DIR­ECT ADVERT­ISING PUR­POSES (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21(2) GDPR).

Right to log a com­plaint with the com­pet­ent super­vis­ory agency

In the event of viol­a­tions of the GDPR, data sub­jects are entitled to log a com­plaint with a super­vis­ory agency, in par­tic­u­lar in the mem­ber state where they usu­ally main­tain their dom­i­cile, place of work or at the place where the alleged viol­a­tion occurred. The right to log a com­plaint is in effect regard­less of any oth­er admin­is­trat­ive or court pro­ceed­ings avail­able as leg­al recourses.

Right to data port­ab­il­ity

You have the right to have data that we pro­cess auto­mat­ic­ally on the basis of your con­sent or in ful­fill­ment of a con­tract handed over to you or to a third party in a com­mon, machine-read­able format. If you should demand the dir­ect trans­fer of the data to anoth­er con­trol­ler, this will be done only if it is tech­nic­ally feas­ible.

Inform­a­tion about, rec­ti­fic­a­tion and erad­ic­a­tion of data

With­in the scope of the applic­able stat­utory pro­vi­sions, you have the right to demand inform­a­tion about your archived per­son­al data, their source and recip­i­ents as well as the pur­pose of the pro­cessing of your data at any time. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied or erad­ic­ated. If you have ques­tions about this sub­ject mat­ter or any oth­er ques­tions about per­son­al data, please do not hes­it­ate to con­tact us at any time.

Right to demand pro­cessing restric­tions

You have the right to demand the impos­i­tion of restric­tions as far as the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data is con­cerned. To do so, you may con­tact us at any time. The right to demand restric­tion of pro­cessing applies in the fol­low­ing cases:

• In the event that you should dis­pute the cor­rect­ness of your data archived by us, we will usu­ally need some time to veri­fy this claim. Dur­ing the time that this invest­ig­a­tion is ongo­ing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data.
• If the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data was/is con­duc­ted in an unlaw­ful man­ner, you have the option to demand the restric­tion of the pro­cessing of your data instead of demand­ing the erad­ic­a­tion of this data.
• If we do not need your per­son­al data any longer and you need it to exer­cise, defend or claim leg­al enti­tle­ments, you have the right to demand the restric­tion of the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data instead of its erad­ic­a­tion.
• If you have raised an objec­tion pur­su­ant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each oth­er. As long as it has not been determ­ined whose interests pre­vail, you have the right to demand a restric­tion of the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data.

If you have restric­ted the pro­cessing of your per­son­al data, these data – with the excep­tion of their archiv­ing – may be pro­cessed only sub­ject to your con­sent or to claim, exer­cise or defend leg­al enti­tle­ments or to pro­tect the rights of oth­er nat­ur­al per­sons or leg­al entit­ies or for import­ant pub­lic interest reas­ons cited by the European Uni­on or a mem­ber state of the EU.

SSL and/or TLS encryp­tion

For secur­ity reas­ons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fid­en­tial con­tent, such as pur­chase orders or inquir­ies you sub­mit to us as the web­site oper­at­or, this web­site uses either an SSL or a TLS encryp­tion pro­gram. You can recog­nize an encryp­ted con­nec­tion by check­ing wheth­er the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appear­ance of the lock icon in the browser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryp­tion is activ­ated, data you trans­mit to us can­not be read by third parties.

4. Record­ing of data on this web­site

Cook­ies

Our web­sites and pages use what the industry refers to as “cook­ies.” Cook­ies are small data pack­ages that do not cause any dam­age to your device. They are either stored tem­por­ar­ily for the dur­a­tion of a ses­sion (ses­sion cook­ies) or they are per­man­ently archived on your device (per­man­ent cook­ies). Ses­sion cook­ies are auto­mat­ic­ally deleted once you ter­min­ate your vis­it. Per­man­ent cook­ies remain archived on your device until you act­ively delete them, or they are auto­mat­ic­ally erad­ic­ated by your web browser.

Cook­ies can be issued by us (first-party cook­ies) or by third-party com­pan­ies (so-called third-party cook­ies). Third-party cook­ies enable the integ­ra­tion of cer­tain ser­vices of third-party com­pan­ies into web­sites (e.g., cook­ies for hand­ling pay­ment ser­vices).

Cook­ies have a vari­ety of func­tions. Many cook­ies are tech­nic­ally essen­tial since cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the absence of these cook­ies (e.g., the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of videos). Oth­er cook­ies may be used to ana­lyze user beha­vi­or or for pro­mo­tion­al pur­poses.

Cook­ies, which are required for the per­form­ance of elec­tron­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion trans­ac­tions, for the pro­vi­sion of cer­tain func­tions you want to use (e.g., for the shop­ping cart func­tion) or those that are neces­sary for the optim­iz­a­tion (required cook­ies) of the web­site (e.g., cook­ies that provide meas­ur­able insights into the web audi­ence), shall be stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, unless a dif­fer­ent leg­al basis is cited. The oper­at­or of the web­site has a legit­im­ate interest in the stor­age of required cook­ies to ensure the tech­nic­ally error-free and optim­ized pro­vi­sion of the operator’s ser­vices. If your con­sent to the stor­age of the cook­ies and sim­il­ar recog­ni­tion tech­no­lo­gies has been reques­ted, the pro­cessing occurs exclus­ively on the basis of the con­sent obtained (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG); this con­sent may be revoked at any time.

You have the option to set up your browser in such a man­ner that you will be noti­fied any time cook­ies are placed and to per­mit the accept­ance of cook­ies only in spe­cif­ic cases. You may also exclude the accept­ance of cook­ies in cer­tain cases or in gen­er­al or activ­ate the delete-func­tion for the auto­mat­ic erad­ic­a­tion of cook­ies when the browser closes. If cook­ies are deac­tiv­ated, the func­tions of this web­site may be lim­ited.

Which cook­ies and ser­vices are used on this web­site can be found in this pri­vacy policy.

Con­sent with Cook­ie Notice & Com­pli­ance

Our web­site uses the con­sent tech­no­logy of Cook­ie Notice & Com­pli­ance for GDPR to obtain your con­sent for the archiv­ing of cer­tain cook­ies on your device or for the use of cer­tain tech­no­lo­gies and for the data pro­tec­tion com­pli­ant doc­u­ment­a­tion of the former.

The pro­vider of the tool is Hu-man­ity Rights Inc., 300 Carne­gie Cen­ter, Suite 150, Prin­ceton, NJ, New Jer­sey 08540, USA (here­in­after referred to as “Hu-man­ity Rights Inc.”). When you gain access to our web­site, a con­nec­tion with the serv­ers of Hu-man­ity Rights Inc. is estab­lished to obtain your con­sent and oth­er declar­a­tions related to the use of cook­ies. Sub­sequently, Hu-man­ity Rights Inc. stores a cook­ie in your browser to be able to alloc­ate the gran­ted con­sent and their revoc­a­tion to you. The thus recor­ded data is stored until you ask us to delete it, delete the Hu-man­ity Rights con­sent cook­ie your­self or the pur­pose of data archiv­ing is no longer val­id. This does not affect man­dat­ory stat­utory reten­tion peri­ods.

Cook­ie Notice & Com­pli­ance for GDPR is being used to obtain the con­sent for the use of cook­ies required by law. The leg­al basis is Art. 6(1)© GDPR.

Con­tact form

If you sub­mit inquir­ies to us via our con­tact form, the inform­a­tion provided in the con­tact form as well as any con­tact inform­a­tion provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have fur­ther ques­tions. We will not share this inform­a­tion without your con­sent.

The pro­cessing of these data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, if your request is related to the exe­cu­tion of a con­tract or if it is neces­sary to carry out pre-con­trac­tu­al meas­ures. In all oth­er cases the pro­cessing is based on our legit­im­ate interest in the effect­ive pro­cessing of the requests addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been reques­ted; the con­sent can be revoked at any time.

The inform­a­tion you have entered into the con­tact form shall remain with us until you ask us to erad­ic­ate the data, revoke your con­sent to the archiv­ing of data or if the pur­pose for which the inform­a­tion is being archived no longer exists (e.g., after we have con­cluded our response to your inquiry). This shall be without pre­ju­dice to any man­dat­ory leg­al pro­vi­sions, in par­tic­u­lar reten­tion peri­ods.

Request by e‑mail, tele­phone, or fax

If you con­tact us by e‑mail, tele­phone or fax, your request, includ­ing all res­ult­ing per­son­al data (name, request) will be stored and pro­cessed by us for the pur­pose of pro­cessing your request. We do not pass these data on without your con­sent.

These data are pro­cessed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is related to the ful­fill­ment of a con­tract or is required for the per­form­ance of pre-con­trac­tu­al meas­ures. In all oth­er cases, the data are pro­cessed on the basis of our legit­im­ate interest in the effect­ive hand­ling of inquir­ies sub­mit­ted to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if it has been obtained; the con­sent can be revoked at any time.

The data sent by you to us via con­tact requests remain with us until you request us to delete, revoke your con­sent to the stor­age or the pur­pose for the data stor­age lapses (e.g. after com­ple­tion of your request). Man­dat­ory stat­utory pro­vi­sions — in par­tic­u­lar stat­utory reten­tion peri­ods — remain unaf­fected.

Meetergo

We have integ­rated Meetergo on this web­site. The pro­vider is Meetergo GmbH Hauptstr. 44, 40789 Mon­heim am Rhein (here­in­after “Meetergo”).

Meetergo enables us to make online appoint­ments. For this pur­pose, we pro­cess per­son­al mas­ter data, com­mu­nic­a­tion data (e.g. tele­phone, e‑mail), con­tent data of the con­tact (title, area of interest and com­ment), user beha­vi­or, IP address, refer­rer URL, time of access.

The leg­al basis for data pro­cessing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site oper­at­or has a legit­im­ate interest in the pos­sib­il­ity of mak­ing appoint­ments. If a cor­res­pond­ing con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­cessing is car­ried out exclus­ively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revoked at any time.

Fur­ther details can be found in the pro­vider­’s pri­vacy policy at https://meetergo.com/datenschutz/.

5. Social media

X (formerly Twit­ter)

We have integ­rated func­tions of the social media plat­form X (formerly Twit­ter) into this web­site. These func­tions are provided by the par­ent com­pany X Corp., 1355 Mar­ket Street, Suite 900, San Fran­cisco, CA 94103, USA. The branch Twit­ter Inter­na­tion­al Unlim­ited Com­pany, One Cum­ber­land Place, Feni­an Street, Dub­lin 2, D02 AX07, Ire­land, is respons­ible for the data pro­cessing of indi­vidu­als liv­ing out­side the United States.

If the social media ele­ment has been activ­ated, a dir­ect con­nec­tion between your device and X’s serv­er will be estab­lished. As a res­ult, X (formerly Twit­ter) will receive inform­a­tion on your vis­it to this web­site. While you use X (formerly Twit­ter) and the “Re-Tweet” or “Repost” func­tion, web­sites you vis­it are linked to your X (formerly Twit­ter) account and dis­closed to oth­er users. We must point out, that we, the pro­viders of the web­site and its pages do not know any­thing about the con­tent of the data trans­ferred and the use of this inform­a­tion by X (formerly Twit­ter). For more details, please con­sult the X (formerly Twit­ter) Data Pri­vacy Declar­a­tion at: https://x.com/en/privacy.

The use of this ser­vice is based on your con­sent in accord­ance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revoked at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stand­ard Con­trac­tu­al Clauses (SCC) of the European Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://gdpr.x.com/en/controller-to-controller-transfers.html.

You have the option to reset your data pro­tec­tion set­tings on X (formerly Twit­ter) under the account set­tings at https://x.com/settings/account.

The com­pany is cer­ti­fied in accord­ance with the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment between the European Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with European data pro­tec­tion stand­ards for data pro­cessing in the US. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obliged to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stand­ards. For more inform­a­tion, please con­tact the pro­vider under the fol­low­ing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/2710.

Ins­tagram

We have integ­rated func­tions of the pub­lic media plat­form Ins­tagram into this web­site. These func­tions are being offered by Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Lim­ited, Mer­ri­on Road, Dub­lin 4, D04 X2K5, Ire­land.

If the social media ele­ment has been activ­ated, a dir­ect con­nec­tion between your device and Instagram’s serv­er will be estab­lished. As a res­ult, Ins­tagram will receive inform­a­tion on your vis­it to this web­site.

If you are logged into your Ins­tagram account, you may click the Ins­tagram but­ton to link con­tents from this web­site to your Ins­tagram pro­file. This enables Ins­tagram to alloc­ate your vis­it to this web­site to your user account. We have to point out that we as the pro­vider of the web­site and its pages do not have any know­ledge of the con­tent of the data trans­ferred and its use by Ins­tagram.

The use of this ser­vice is based on your con­sent in accord­ance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revoked at any time.

Inso­far as per­son­al data is col­lec­ted on our web­site with the help of the tool described here and for­war­ded to Face­book or Ins­tagram, we and Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Lim­ited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Har­bour, Dub­lin 2, Ire­land are jointly respons­ible for this data pro­cessing (Art. 26 DSGVO). The joint respons­ib­il­ity is lim­ited exclus­ively to the col­lec­tion of the data and its for­ward­ing to Face­book or Ins­tagram. The pro­cessing by Face­book or Ins­tagram that takes place after the onward trans­fer is not part of the joint respons­ib­il­ity. The oblig­a­tions incum­bent on us jointly have been set out in a joint pro­cessing agree­ment. The word­ing of the agree­ment can be found under: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. Accord­ing to this agree­ment, we are respons­ible for provid­ing the pri­vacy inform­a­tion when using the Face­book or Ins­tagram tool and for the pri­vacy-secure imple­ment­a­tion of the tool on our web­site. Face­book is respons­ible for the data secur­ity of Face­book or Ins­tagram products. You can assert data sub­ject rights (e.g., requests for inform­a­tion) regard­ing data pro­cessed by Face­book or Ins­tagram dir­ectly with Face­book. If you assert the data sub­ject rights with us, we are obliged to for­ward them to Face­book.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stand­ard Con­trac­tu­al Clauses (SCC) of the European Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum, https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/ and https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

For more inform­a­tion on this sub­ject, please con­sult Instagram’s Data Pri­vacy Declar­a­tion at: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.

The com­pany is cer­ti­fied in accord­ance with the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment between the European Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with European data pro­tec­tion stand­ards for data pro­cessing in the US. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obliged to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stand­ards. For more inform­a­tion, please con­tact the pro­vider under the fol­low­ing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/4452.

Linked­In

This web­site uses ele­ments of the Linked­In net­work. The pro­vider is Linked­In Ire­land Unlim­ited Com­pany, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dub­lin 2, Ire­land.

Any time you access a page of this web­site that con­tains ele­ments of Linked­In, a con­nec­tion to LinkedIn’s serv­ers is estab­lished. Linked­In is noti­fied that you have vis­ited this web­site with your IP address. If you click on LinkedIn’s “Recom­mend” but­ton and are logged into your Linked­In account at the time, Linked­In will be in a pos­i­tion to alloc­ate your vis­it to this web­site to your user account. We have to point out that we as the pro­vider of the web­sites do not have any know­ledge of the con­tent of the trans­ferred data and its use by Linked­In.

The use of this ser­vice is based on your con­sent in accord­ance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revoked at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stand­ard Con­trac­tu­al Clauses (SCC) of the European Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1343190/datenubertragung-aus-der-eu-dem-ewr-und-der-schweiz?lang=de.

For fur­ther inform­a­tion on this sub­ject, please con­sult LinkedIn’s Data Pri­vacy Declar­a­tion at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

The com­pany is cer­ti­fied in accord­ance with the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment between the European Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with European data pro­tec­tion stand­ards for data pro­cessing in the US. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obliged to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stand­ards. For more inform­a­tion, please con­tact the pro­vider under the fol­low­ing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5448.

6. News­let­ter

News­let­ter data

If you would like to sub­scribe to the news­let­ter offered on this web­site, we will need from you an e‑mail address as well as inform­a­tion that allow us to veri­fy that you are the own­er of the e‑mail address provided and con­sent to the receipt of the news­let­ter. No fur­ther data shall be col­lec­ted or shall be col­lec­ted only on a vol­un­tary basis. We shall use such data only for the send­ing of the reques­ted inform­a­tion and shall not share such data with any third parties.

The pro­cessing of the inform­a­tion entered into the news­let­ter sub­scrip­tion form shall occur exclus­ively on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may revoke the con­sent you have giv­en to the archiv­ing of data, the e‑mail address, and the use of this inform­a­tion for the send­ing of the news­let­ter at any time, for instance by click­ing on the “Unsub­scribe” link in the news­let­ter. This shall be without pre­ju­dice to the law­ful­ness of any data pro­cessing trans­ac­tions that have taken place to date.

The data depos­ited with us for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter will be stored by us until you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vider and deleted from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list after you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter or after the pur­pose has ceased to apply. We reserve the right to delete or block e‑mail addresses from our news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list at our own dis­cre­tion with­in the scope of our legit­im­ate interest in accord­ance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Data stored for oth­er pur­poses with us remain unaf­fected.

After you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list, your e‑mail address may be stored by us or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vider in a black­list, if such action is neces­sary to pre­vent future mail­ings. The data from the black­list is used only for this pur­pose and not merged with oth­er data. This serves both your interest and our interest in com­ply­ing with the leg­al require­ments when send­ing news­let­ters (legit­im­ate interest with­in the mean­ing of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The stor­age in the black­list is indef­in­ite. You may object to the stor­age if your interests out­weigh our legit­im­ate interest.

7. Plug-ins and Tools

Adobe Fonts

In order to ensure the uni­form depic­tion of cer­tain fonts, this web­site uses fonts called Adobe Fonts provided by Adobe Sys­tems Incor­por­ated, 345 Park Aven­ue, San Jose, CA 95110–2704, USA (Adobe).

When you access pages of this web­site, your browser will auto­mat­ic­ally load the required fonts dir­ectly from the Adobe site to be able to dis­play them cor­rectly on your device. As a res­ult, your browser will estab­lish a con­nec­tion with Adobe’s serv­ers in the United States. Hence, Adobe learns that your IP address was used to access this web­site. Accord­ing to the inform­a­tion provided by Adobe, no cook­ies will be stored in con­junc­tion with the pro­vi­sion of the fonts.

Data are stored and ana­lyzed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site oper­at­or has a legit­im­ate interest in a uni­form present­a­tion of the font on the operator’s web­site. If appro­pri­ate con­sent has been obtained, the pro­cessing is car­ried out exclus­ively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the stor­age of cook­ies or the access to inform­a­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­print­ing) with­in the mean­ing of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revoked at any time.

Data trans­mis­sion to the US is based on the Stand­ard Con­trac­tu­al Clauses (SCC) of the European Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/eudatatransfers.html.

For more inform­a­tion about Adobe Fonts, please read the policies under: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html.

Adobe’s Data Pri­vacy Declar­a­tion may be reviewed under: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html.

The com­pany is cer­ti­fied in accord­ance with the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment between the European Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with European data pro­tec­tion stand­ards for data pro­cessing in the US. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obliged to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stand­ards. For more inform­a­tion, please con­tact the pro­vider under the fol­low­ing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5660.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (here­in­after referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on this web­site. The pro­vider is Google Ire­land Lim­ited (“Google”), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land.

The pur­pose of reCAPTCHA is to determ­ine wheth­er data entered on this web­site (e.g., inform­a­tion entered into a con­tact form) is being provided by a human user or by an auto­mated pro­gram. To determ­ine this, reCAPTCHA ana­lyzes the beha­vi­or of the web­site vis­it­ors based on a vari­ety of para­met­ers. This ana­lys­is is triggered auto­mat­ic­ally as soon as the web­site vis­it­or enters the site. For this ana­lys­is, reCAPTCHA eval­u­ates a vari­ety of data (e.g., IP address, time the web­site vis­it­or spent on the site or curs­or move­ments ini­ti­ated by the user). The data tracked dur­ing such ana­lyses are for­war­ded to Google.

reCAPTCHA ana­lyses run entirely in the back­ground. Web­site vis­it­ors are not aler­ted that an ana­lys­is is under­way.

Data are stored and ana­lyzed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The web­site oper­at­or has a legit­im­ate interest in the pro­tec­tion of the operator’s web­sites against abus­ive auto­mated spy­ing and against SPAM. If appro­pri­ate con­sent has been obtained, the pro­cessing is car­ried out exclus­ively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG, inso­far the con­sent includes the stor­age of cook­ies or the access to inform­a­tion in the user’s end device (e.g., device fin­ger­print­ing) with­in the mean­ing of the TDDDG. This con­sent can be revoked at any time.

For more inform­a­tion about Google reCAPTCHA please refer to the Google Data Pri­vacy Declar­a­tion and Terms Of Use under the fol­low­ing links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en.

The com­pany is cer­ti­fied in accord­ance with the “EU-US Data Pri­vacy Frame­work” (DPF). The DPF is an agree­ment between the European Uni­on and the US, which is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with European data pro­tec­tion stand­ards for data pro­cessing in the US. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF is obliged to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stand­ards. For more inform­a­tion, please con­tact the pro­vider under the fol­low­ing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

Quelle: https://www.e‑recht24.de