Pri­vacy policy

1. data pro­tec­tion 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 the sub­ject of data pro­tec­tion can be found in our data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­tion lis­ted below this text.

Data coll­ec­tion on this web­site

Who is respon­si­ble for data coll­ec­tion 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 "Infor­ma­tion on the con­trol­ler" sec­tion of this pri­vacy policy.

How do we coll­ect your data?

On the one hand, your data is coll­ec­ted when you pro­vide it to us. This may, for exam­ple, be data that you enter in a cont­act form.

Other data is coll­ec­ted auto­ma­ti­cally or with your con­sent by our IT sys­tems when you visit the web­site. This is pri­ma­rily tech­ni­cal data (e.g. inter­net brow­ser, ope­ra­ting sys­tem or time of page view). This data is coll­ec­ted auto­ma­ti­cally as soon as you enter this web­site.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is coll­ec­ted to ensure that the web­site is pro­vi­ded wit­hout errors. Other data may be used to ana­lyse your user beha­viour. If con­tracts can be con­cluded or initia­ted via the web­site, the data trans­mit­ted will also be pro­ces­sed for con­tract offers, orders or other order enqui­ries.

What rights do you have regar­ding your data?

You have the right to receive infor­ma­tion about the ori­gin, reci­pi­ent and pur­pose of your stored per­so­nal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the cor­rec­tion or dele­tion of this data. If you have given your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing, you can revoke this con­sent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances. Fur­ther­more, you have the right to lodge a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sory aut­ho­rity.

You can cont­act us at any time if you have fur­ther ques­ti­ons on the sub­ject of data pro­tec­tion.

Ana­ly­sis tools and tools from third-party pro­vi­ders

When you visit this web­site, your sur­fing beha­viour may be sta­tis­ti­cally eva­lua­ted. This is mainly done with so-cal­led ana­ly­sis pro­gram­mes.

Detailed infor­ma­tion on these ana­ly­sis pro­gram­mes can be found in the fol­lo­wing pri­vacy policy.

2. hos­ting

We host the con­tent of our web­site with 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 log files inclu­ding your IP addres­ses.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion can be found in Strato's pri­vacy policy: https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/.

The use of Strato is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in ensu­ring that our web­site is dis­played as relia­bly as pos­si­ble. If a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, inso­far as the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­tion in the user's ter­mi­nal device (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. Con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

3 Gene­ral notes and man­da­tory infor­ma­tion

Data pro­tec­tion

The ope­ra­tors of these pages 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 per­so­nal data is 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 pur­pose this is done.

We would like to point out that data trans­mis­sion over the Inter­net (e.g. when com­mu­ni­ca­ting by e-mail) may be sub­ject to secu­rity vul­nerabi­li­ties. Com­plete pro­tec­tion of data against access by third par­ties is not pos­si­ble.

Note on the respon­si­ble body

The con­trol­ler respon­si­ble for data pro­ces­sing on this web­site is

Plus­Qua­drat Pro­jects GmbH
Bleib­treu­strasse 38/39
10623 Ber­lin

Phone: 03025740980
E-mail: info@plusquadrat-projects.de

The con­trol­ler is the natu­ral or legal per­son who alone or jointly with others deter­mi­nes the pur­po­ses and means of the pro­ces­sing of per­so­nal data (e.g. names, email 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 data pro­ces­sing 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. reten­tion peri­ods under tax or com­mer­cial law); in the lat­ter case, the dele­tion will take place after these reasons no lon­ger apply.

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

If you have con­sen­ted to data pro­ces­sing, we pro­cess your per­so­nal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR or Art. 9 para. 2 lit. a GDPR, inso­far as spe­cial cate­go­ries of data are pro­ces­sed in accordance with Art. 9 para. 1 GDPR. In the event of express con­sent to the trans­fer of per­so­nal data to third count­ries, data pro­ces­sing is also car­ried out on the basis of Art. 49 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have con­sen­ted to the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­tion in your end device (e.g. via device fin­ger­prin­ting), the data pro­ces­sing is also car­ried out on the basis of Sec­tion 25 (1) TDDDG. Con­sent can be revo­ked at any time. If your data is requi­red for the ful­film­ent of a con­tract or for the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-con­trac­tual mea­su­res, we pro­cess your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Fur­ther­more, we pro­cess your data if this is neces­sary to ful­fil a legal obli­ga­tion on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. Data pro­ces­sing may also be car­ried out on the basis of our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Infor­ma­tion on the rele­vant legal bases in each indi­vi­dual case is pro­vi­ded in the fol­lo­wing para­graphs of this pri­vacy policy.

Reci­pi­ents of per­so­nal data

As part of our business acti­vi­ties, we work tog­e­ther with various exter­nal orga­ni­sa­ti­ons. In some cases, it is also neces­sary to trans­fer per­so­nal data to these exter­nal orga­ni­sa­ti­ons. We only pass on per­so­nal data to exter­nal bodies if this is neces­sary for the ful­film­ent of a con­tract, if we are legally obli­ged to do so (e.g. pas­sing on data to tax aut­ho­ri­ties), if we have a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the trans­fer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR or if ano­ther legal basis per­mits the trans­fer of data. When using pro­ces­sors, we only pass on our cus­to­mers' per­so­nal data on the basis of a valid con­tract for order pro­ces­sing. In the case of joint pro­ces­sing, a joint pro­ces­sing agree­ment is con­cluded.

Revo­ca­tion of your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing

Many data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons are only pos­si­ble with your express con­sent. You can with­draw your con­sent at any time. The lega­lity of the data pro­ces­sing car­ried out until the revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fec­ted by the revo­ca­tion.

Right to object to the coll­ec­tion of data in spe­cial cases and to direct mar­ke­ting (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PRO­CES­SING IS BASED ON ART. 6 ABS. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA AT ANY TIME 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 PER­SO­NAL DATA CON­CER­NED UNLESS WE CAN DEMONS­TRATE COM­PEL­LING LEGI­TI­MATE GROUNDS FOR THE PRO­CES­SING WHICH OVER­RIDE YOUR INTE­RESTS, RIGHTS AND FREE­DOMS OR THE PRO­CES­SING SER­VES THE ESTAB­LISH­MENT, EXER­CISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA ARE PRO­CES­SED FOR THE PUR­POSE OF DIRECT MAR­KE­TING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PRO­CES­SING OF PER­SO­NAL DATA CON­CER­NING YOU FOR THE PUR­POSE OF SUCH MAR­KE­TING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PRO­FIL­ING TO THE EXT­ENT THAT IT IS RELA­TED TO SUCH DIRECT MAR­KE­TING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PER­SO­NAL DATA WILL SUB­SE­QUENTLY NO LON­GER BE USED FOR THE PUR­POSE OF DIRECT MAR­KE­TING (OBJEC­TION PUR­SU­ANT TO ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).

Right to lodge a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sory aut­ho­rity

In the event of inf­rin­ge­ments of the GDPR, data sub­jects have the right to lodge a com­plaint with a super­vi­sory aut­ho­rity, in par­ti­cu­lar in the Mem­ber State of their habi­tual resi­dence, place of work or place of the alle­ged inf­rin­ge­ment. The right to lodge a com­plaint is wit­hout pre­ju­dice to any other admi­nis­tra­tive or judi­cial reme­dies.

Right to data por­ta­bi­lity

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

Infor­ma­tion, cor­rec­tion and dele­tion

Within the frame­work of the appli­ca­ble legal pro­vi­si­ons, you have the right at any time to free infor­ma­tion about your stored per­so­nal data, its ori­gin and reci­pi­ent and the pur­pose of the data pro­ces­sing and, if neces­sary, a right to cor­rec­tion or dele­tion of this data. You can cont­act us at any time if you have fur­ther ques­ti­ons on the sub­ject of 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 do this. The right to rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing exists in the fol­lo­wing cases:

• If you dis­pute the accu­racy of your per­so­nal data stored by us, we gene­rally need time to check this. For the dura­tion of the review, you have the right to request that the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data be rest­ric­ted.

• If the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data was/is unlawful, you can request the rest­ric­tion of data pro­ces­sing ins­tead of era­sure.

• If we no lon­ger need your per­so­nal data, but you need it for the exer­cise, defence or asser­tion of legal claims, you have the right to request the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­so­nal data ins­tead of its era­sure.

• If you have lodged an objec­tion in accordance with Art. 21 (1) GDPR, a balance must be struck bet­ween your inte­rests and ours. As long as it has not yet 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, this data - apart from its sto­rage - may only be pro­ces­sed with your con­sent or for the estab­lish­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims or for the pro­tec­tion of the rights of ano­ther natu­ral or legal per­son or for reasons of important public inte­rest of the Euro­pean Union or of a Mem­ber State.

SSL or TLS encryp­tion

This site uses SSL or TLS encryp­tion for secu­rity reasons and to pro­tect the trans­mis­sion of con­fi­den­tial con­tent, such as orders or enqui­ries that you send to us as the site ope­ra­tor. You can reco­g­nise an encrypted con­nec­tion by the fact that the address line of the brow­ser chan­ges from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock sym­bol in your brow­ser line.

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

Objec­tion to adver­ti­sing e-mails

We her­eby object to the use of cont­act data published as part of our obli­ga­tion to pro­vide a legal notice for the pur­pose of sen­ding unso­li­ci­ted adver­ti­sing and infor­ma­tion mate­rial. The ope­ra­tors of this web­site expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unso­li­ci­ted sen­ding of adver­ti­sing infor­ma­tion, such as spam e-mails.

4. data coll­ec­tion on this web­site

Coo­kies

Our Inter­net pages use so-cal­led "coo­kies". Coo­kies are small data packets and do not cause any damage to your end device. They are stored on your device eit­her tem­po­r­a­rily for the dura­tion of a ses­sion (ses­sion coo­kies) or per­ma­nently (per­ma­nent coo­kies). Ses­sion coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cally dele­ted at the end of your visit. Per­ma­nent coo­kies remain stored on your end device until you delete them yours­elf or they are auto­ma­ti­cally dele­ted by your web brow­ser.

Coo­kies may ori­gi­nate from us (first-party coo­kies) or from third-party com­pa­nies (so-cal­led third-party coo­kies). Third-party coo­kies enable the inte­gra­tion of cer­tain ser­vices from third-party com­pa­nies within web­sites (e.g. coo­kies for pro­ces­sing pay­ment ser­vices).

Coo­kies have various func­tions. Many coo­kies are tech­ni­cally neces­sary, as cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work wit­hout them (e.g. the shop­ping bas­ket func­tion or the dis­play of videos). Other coo­kies can be used to ana­lyse user beha­viour or for adver­ti­sing pur­po­ses.

Coo­kies that are requi­red to carry out the elec­tro­nic com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­cess, to pro­vide cer­tain func­tions that you have reques­ted (e.g. for the shop­ping bas­ket func­tion) or to opti­mise the web­site (e.g. coo­kies to mea­sure the web audi­ence) (neces­sary coo­kies) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless ano­ther legal basis is spe­ci­fied. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the sto­rage of neces­sary coo­kies for the tech­ni­cally error-free and opti­mi­sed pro­vi­sion of its ser­vices. If con­sent to the sto­rage of coo­kies and com­pa­ra­ble reco­gni­tion tech­no­lo­gies has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of this con­sent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG); the con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

You can set your brow­ser so that you are infor­med about the set­ting of coo­kies and only allow coo­kies in indi­vi­dual cases, exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies for cer­tain cases or in gene­ral and acti­vate the auto­ma­tic dele­tion of coo­kies when clo­sing the brow­ser. If coo­kies are deac­ti­va­ted, the func­tion­a­lity of this web­site may be rest­ric­ted.

You can find out which coo­kies and ser­vices are used on this web­site in this pri­vacy policy.

Con­sent with Borlabs Coo­kie

Our web­site uses Borlabs Coo­kie con­sent tech­no­logy to obtain your con­sent to the sto­rage of cer­tain coo­kies in your brow­ser or to the use of cer­tain tech­no­lo­gies and to docu­ment these in com­pli­ance with data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons. The pro­vi­der of this tech­no­logy is Borlabs GmbH, Rüben­kamp 32, 22305 Ham­burg, Germany (her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as Borlabs).

When you enter our web­site, a Borlabs coo­kie is stored in your brow­ser, in which the cons­ents you have given or the revo­ca­tion of these cons­ents are stored. This data is not pas­sed on to the pro­vi­der of Borlabs Coo­kie.

The data coll­ec­ted will be stored until you ask us to delete it or delete the Borlabs coo­kie yours­elf or until the pur­pose for sto­ring the data no lon­ger applies. Man­da­tory sta­tu­tory reten­tion peri­ods remain unaf­fec­ted. Details on data pro­ces­sing by Borlabs Coo­kie can be found at https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/.

Borlabs coo­kie con­sent tech­no­logy is used to obtain the legally requi­red con­sent for the use of coo­kies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

Cont­act form

If you send us enqui­ries via the cont­act form, your details from the enquiry form, inclu­ding the cont­act details you pro­vide there, will be stored by us for the pur­pose of pro­ces­sing the enquiry and in the event of fol­low-up ques­ti­ons. We will not pass on this data wit­hout your con­sent.

This data is pro­ces­sed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR if your enquiry is rela­ted to the ful­film­ent of a con­tract or is neces­sary for the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-con­trac­tual mea­su­res. In all other cases, the pro­ces­sing is based on our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the effec­tive pro­ces­sing of the enqui­ries addres­sed to us (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your con­sent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has been reques­ted; con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

We will retain the data you pro­vide on the cont­act form until you request its dele­tion, revoke your con­sent for its sto­rage, or the pur­pose for its sto­rage no lon­ger per­ta­ins (e.g. after ful­fil­ling your request). Man­da­tory sta­tu­tory pro­vi­si­ons - in par­ti­cu­lar reten­tion peri­ods - remain unaf­fec­ted.

5. social media

Face­book

Ele­ments of the social net­work Face­book are inte­gra­ted on this web­site. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Limi­ted, Mer­rion Road, Dub­lin 4, D04 X2K5, Ire­land. Howe­ver, accor­ding to Face­book, the data coll­ec­ted is also trans­fer­red to the USA and other third count­ries.

You can find an over­view of the Face­book social media ele­ments here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE.

When the social media ele­ment is active, a direct con­nec­tion is estab­lished bet­ween your end device and the Face­book ser­ver. Face­book recei­ves the infor­ma­tion that you have visi­ted this web­site with your IP address. If you click on the Face­book "Like" but­ton while you are log­ged into your Face­book account, you can link the con­tent of this web­site to your Face­book pro­file. This allows Face­book to asso­ciate your visit to this web­site 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 Face­book. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this can be found in Facebook's pri­vacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

The use of this ser­vice is based on your con­sent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 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, 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 GDPR). The joint respon­si­bi­lity is limi­ted exclu­si­vely to the coll­ec­tion of the data and its trans­fer to Face­book. The pro­ces­sing car­ried out by Face­book after for­war­ding is not part of the joint respon­si­bi­lity. The obli­ga­ti­ons incum­bent on us jointly have been set out in an agree­ment on joint pro­ces­sing. You can find the wor­ding of the agree­ment at https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. Accor­ding to this agree­ment, we are respon­si­ble for pro­vi­ding the data pro­tec­tion infor­ma­tion when using the Face­book tool and for the secure imple­men­ta­tion of the tool on our web­site in accordance with data pro­tec­tion law. Face­book is respon­si­ble for the data secu­rity of Face­book pro­ducts. You can assert data sub­ject rights (e.g. requests for infor­ma­tion) regar­ding the data pro­ces­sed by Face­book directly with Face­book. If you assert your data sub­ject rights with us, we are obli­ged to for­ward them to Face­book.

Data trans­fer to the USA is based on the standard con­trac­tual clau­ses of the EU Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum, https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381 and https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

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 USA that is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the USA. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF under­ta­kes to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this can be obtai­ned from the pro­vi­der at the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/4452.

Insta­gram

Func­tions of the Insta­gram ser­vice are inte­gra­ted on this web­site. These func­tions are offe­red by Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Limi­ted, Mer­rion Road, Dub­lin 4, D04 X2K5, Ire­land.

When the social media ele­ment is active, a direct con­nec­tion is estab­lished bet­ween your device and the Insta­gram ser­ver. Insta­gram ther­eby recei­ves infor­ma­tion about your visit to this web­site.

If you are log­ged into your Insta­gram account, you can link the con­tent of this web­site to your Insta­gram pro­file by cli­cking on the Insta­gram but­ton. This allows Insta­gram to asso­ciate your visit to this web­site 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 Insta­gram.

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

Inso­far as per­so­nal data is coll­ec­ted on our web­site using 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 GDPR). The joint respon­si­bi­lity is limi­ted exclu­si­vely to the coll­ec­tion of the data and its trans­fer to Face­book or Insta­gram. The pro­ces­sing car­ried out by Face­book or Insta­gram after for­war­ding is not part of the joint respon­si­bi­lity. The joint obli­ga­ti­ons incum­bent on us have been set out in a joint pro­ces­sing agree­ment. You can find the wor­ding of the agree­ment at https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. Accor­ding to this agree­ment, we are respon­si­ble for pro­vi­ding the data pro­tec­tion infor­ma­tion when using the Face­book or Insta­gram tool and for the secure imple­men­ta­tion of the tool on our web­site in accordance with data pro­tec­tion law. Face­book is respon­si­ble for the data secu­rity of Face­book and Insta­gram pro­ducts. You can assert data sub­ject rights (e.g. requests for infor­ma­tion) regar­ding the data pro­ces­sed by Face­book or Insta­gram directly with Face­book. If you assert your data sub­ject rights with us, we are obli­ged to for­ward them to Face­book.

Data trans­fer to the USA is based on the standard con­trac­tual clau­ses of the EU 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.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this can be found in Instagram's pri­vacy policy: 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 USA that is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the USA. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF under­ta­kes to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this can be obtai­ned from the pro­vi­der at the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/4452.

6. ana­ly­sis tools and adver­ti­sing

Google Ana­ly­tics

This web­site uses func­tions of the web ana­ly­sis ser­vice Google Ana­ly­tics. The pro­vi­der is Google Ire­land Limi­ted ("Google"), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land.

Google Ana­ly­tics enables the web­site ope­ra­tor to ana­lyse the beha­viour of web­site visi­tors. The web­site ope­ra­tor recei­ves various usage data, such as page views, length of visit, ope­ra­ting sys­tems used and ori­gin of the user. This data is sum­ma­ri­sed in a user ID and assi­gned to the respec­tive end device of the web­site visi­tor.

We can also use Google Ana­ly­tics to record your mouse and scroll move­ments and clicks, among other things. Google Ana­ly­tics also uses various model­ling approa­ches to sup­ple­ment the recor­ded data records and uses machine lear­ning tech­no­lo­gies for data ana­ly­sis.

Google Ana­ly­tics uses tech­no­lo­gies that enable the reco­gni­tion of the user for the pur­pose of ana­ly­sing user beha­viour (e.g. coo­kies or device fin­ger­prin­ting). The infor­ma­tion coll­ec­ted by Google about the use of this web­site is gene­rally trans­mit­ted to a Google ser­ver in the USA and stored there.

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

Data trans­fer to the USA is based on the standard con­trac­tual clau­ses of the EU Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.

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 USA that is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the USA. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF under­ta­kes to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this can be obtai­ned from the pro­vi­der at the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.

IP anony­mi­sa­tion

Google Ana­ly­tics IP anony­mi­sa­tion is acti­va­ted. As a result, your IP address will be trun­ca­ted by Google within mem­ber sta­tes of the Euro­pean Union or in other signa­tory sta­tes to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Eco­no­mic Area before being trans­mit­ted to the USA. 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 ana­lyse your use of the web­site, to com­pile reports on web­site acti­vity and to pro­vide the web­site ope­ra­tor with other ser­vices rela­ting to web­site acti­vity and inter­net usage. The IP address trans­mit­ted by your brow­ser as part of Google Ana­ly­tics will not be mer­ged with other Google data.

Brow­ser plugin

You can pre­vent the coll­ec­tion and pro­ces­sing of your data by Google by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the brow­ser plug-in available at the fol­lo­wing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

You can find more infor­ma­tion on how Google Ana­ly­tics hand­les user data in Google's pri­vacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Demo­gra­phic cha­rac­te­ristics in Google Ana­ly­tics

This web­site uses the "demo­gra­phic cha­rac­te­ristics" func­tion of Google Ana­ly­tics in order to be able to dis­play sui­ta­ble adverts to web­site visi­tors within the Google adver­ti­sing net­work. This allows reports to be gene­ra­ted that con­tain state­ments about the age, gen­der and inte­rests of site visi­tors. This data comes from inte­rest-based adver­ti­sing from Google and from visi­tor data from third-party pro­vi­ders. This data can­not be assi­gned to a spe­ci­fic per­son. You can deac­ti­vate this func­tion at any time via the ad set­tings in your Google account or gene­rally pro­hi­bit the coll­ec­tion of your data by Google Ana­ly­tics as descri­bed in the sec­tion "Objec­tion to data coll­ec­tion".

Order pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded an order pro­ces­sing con­tract with Google and fully imple­ment the strict requi­re­ments of the Ger­man data pro­tec­tion aut­ho­ri­ties when using Google Ana­ly­tics.

7th News­let­ter

News­let­ter data

If you would like to receive the news­let­ter offe­red on the web­site, we require an e-mail address from you as well as infor­ma­tion that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the e-mail address pro­vi­ded and that you agree to receive the news­let­ter. No fur­ther data is coll­ec­ted, or only on a vol­un­t­ary basis. We use the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vi­ders descri­bed below to pro­cess the news­let­ter.

Rapidmail

This web­site uses Rapidmail to send news­let­ters. The pro­vi­der is rapidmail GmbH, Augus­ti­ner­platz 2, 79098 Frei­burg i.Br., Germany.

Rapidmail is a ser­vice that can be used to orga­nise and ana­lyse the sen­ding of news­let­ters, among other things. The data you enter for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter is stored on Rapidmail's ser­vers in Germany.

Data ana­ly­sis by Rapidmail

For the pur­pose of ana­ly­sis, the emails sent with Rapidmail con­tain a so-cal­led "track­ing pixel", which con­nects to the Rapidmail ser­vers when the email is ope­ned. In this way, it can be deter­mi­ned whe­ther a news­let­ter mes­sage has been ope­ned.

We can also use Rapidmail to deter­mine whe­ther and which links in the news­let­ter mes­sage are cli­cked on. All links in the email are so-cal­led track­ing links that can be used to count your clicks. If you do not wish to be ana­ly­sed by Rapidmail, you must unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter. For this pur­pose, we pro­vide a cor­re­spon­ding link in every news­let­ter mes­sage.

For more infor­ma­tion on Rapidmail's ana­ly­sis func­tions, please see the fol­lo­wing link: https://de.rapidmail.wiki/kategorien/statistiken/.

Legal basis

The data pro­ces­sing takes place on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this con­sent at any time. The lega­lity of the data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­ti­ons that have alre­ady taken place remains unaf­fec­ted by the revo­ca­tion.

Sto­rage dura­tion

The data you pro­vide us with for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to the news­let­ter will be stored by us or the news­let­ter ser­vice pro­vi­der until you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter and dele­ted from the news­let­ter dis­tri­bu­tion list after you unsub­scribe from the news­let­ter. Data stored by us for other pur­po­ses remains unaf­fec­ted by this.

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 this is neces­sary to pre­vent future mai­lings. The data from the black­list will only be used for this pur­pose and will not be 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 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Sto­rage in the black­list is not limi­ted in time. You can object to the sto­rage if your inte­rests out­weigh our legi­ti­mate inte­rest.

For more infor­ma­tion, please refer to Rapidmail's data secu­rity infor­ma­tion at: https://www.rapidmail.de/datensicherheit.

8. plug­ins and tools

Font Awe­some (local hos­ting)

This site uses Font Awe­some for the stan­dar­di­sed dis­play of fonts. Font Awe­some is instal­led locally. There is no con­nec­tion to Fon­ti­cons, Inc. ser­vers.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about Font Awe­some can be found in the Font Awe­some pri­vacy policy at: https://fontawesome.com/privacy.

Google Maps

This site uses the map ser­vice Google Maps. The pro­vi­der is Google Ire­land Limi­ted ("Google"), Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dub­lin 4, Ire­land. With the help of this ser­vice, we can inte­grate map mate­rial on our web­site.

To use the func­tions of Google Maps, it is neces­sary to save your IP address. This infor­ma­tion is usually trans­mit­ted to a Google ser­ver in the USA and stored there. The pro­vi­der of this site has no influence on this data trans­fer. If Google Maps is acti­va­ted, Google may use Google Fonts for the pur­pose of stan­dar­di­sing the dis­play of fonts. When you call up Google Maps, your brow­ser loads the requi­red web fonts into your brow­ser cache in order to dis­play texts and fonts cor­rectly.

The use of Google Maps is in the inte­rest of an appe­al­ing pre­sen­ta­tion of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we have indi­ca­ted on the web­site. This con­sti­tu­tes a legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been reques­ted, the pro­ces­sing is car­ried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TDDDG, inso­far as the con­sent includes the sto­rage of coo­kies or access to infor­ma­tion in the user's ter­mi­nal device (e.g. device fin­ger­prin­ting) within the mea­ning of the TDDDG. Con­sent can be revo­ked at any time.

Data trans­fer to the USA is based on the standard con­trac­tual clau­ses of the EU Com­mis­sion. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/.

You can find more infor­ma­tion on the hand­ling of user data in Google's pri­vacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

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 USA that is inten­ded to ensure com­pli­ance with Euro­pean data pro­tec­tion stan­dards for data pro­ces­sing in the USA. Every com­pany cer­ti­fied under the DPF under­ta­kes to com­ply with these data pro­tec­tion stan­dards. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this can be obtai­ned from the pro­vi­der at the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.