Privacy Policy

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.

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:

External Hosting

This website is hosted extern­ally. Personal data coll­ected on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta­data and commu­ni­ca­tions, contract infor­ma­tion, contact infor­ma­tion, names, web page access, and other data gene­rated through a web site.

The external hosting serves the purpose of fulfil­ling the contract with our poten­tial and exis­ting custo­mers (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and in the inte­rest of secure, fast, and effi­cient provi­sion of our online services by a profes­sional provider (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If appro­priate consent has been obtained, the proces­sing is carried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, 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 TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time.

Our host(s) will only process your data to the extent neces­sary to fulfil its perfor­mance obli­ga­tions and to follow our instruc­tions with respect to such data.

We are using the follo­wing host(s):

Agentur K3
Köll­mann­straße 19
45276 Essen

Data proces­sing

We have concluded a data proces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guaran­tees that they process personal data of our website visi­tors only based on our instruc­tions and in compli­ance with the GDPR.

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:

Schmitz & Gerlach GmbH
Kleine Ruhrau 28
45279 Essen

Phone: 0201 8 536 760 81
E‑mail: info@​sg-​gutachter.​de

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) TTDSG. 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 coöpe­rate 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.

Rejec­tion of unso­li­cited e‑mails

We here­with object to the use of contact infor­ma­tion published in conjunc­tion with the manda­tory infor­ma­tion to be provided in our Site Notice to send us promo­tional and infor­ma­tion mate­rial that we have not expressly requested. The opera­tors of this website and its pages reserve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unso­li­cited sending of promo­tional infor­ma­tion, for instance via SPAM messages.

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) TTDSG); 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 User­cen­trics

This website uses the consent tech­no­logy of User­cen­trics to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies on your device or for the use of specific tech­no­lo­gies, and to docu­ment the former in a data protec­tion compliant manner. The party offe­ring this tech­no­logy is User­cen­trics GmbH, Send­linger Straße 7, 80331 München, Germany, website: https://​user​cen​trics​.com/ (herein­after referred to as “User­cen­trics”).

When­ever you visit our website, the follo­wing personal data will be trans­ferred to User­cen­trics:

• Your declaration(s) of consent or your revo­ca­tion of your declaration(s) of consent
• Your IP address
• Infor­ma­tion about your browser
• Infor­ma­tion about your device
• The date and time you visited our website
• Geolo­ca­tion

Moreover, User­cen­trics shall store a cookie in your browser to be able to allo­cate your declaration(s) of consent or any revo­ca­tions of the former. The data that are recorded in this manner shall be stored until you ask us to eradi­cate them, delete the User­cen­trics cookie or until the purpose for archi­ving the data no longer exists. This shall be without preju­dice to any manda­tory legal reten­tion periods.

The User­cen­trics banner on this website has been confi­gured with the assis­tance of eRecht24. This can be iden­ti­fied by the eRecht24 logo. To display the eRecht24 logo in the banner, a connec­tion to the image server of eRecht24 will be estab­lished. In conjunc­tion with this, the IP address is also trans­ferred; however, is only stored in anony­mized form in the server logs. The image server of eRecht24 is located in Germany with a German provider. The banner as such is provided exclu­si­vely by User­cen­trics.

User­cen­trics uses cookies to obtain the decla­ra­tions of consent mandated by law. The legal basis for the use of specific tech­no­lo­gies is Art. 6(1)© GDPR.

Data proces­sing

We have concluded a data proces­sing agree­ment (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guaran­tees that they process personal data of our website visi­tors only based on our instruc­tions and in compli­ance with the GDPR.

Server log files

The provider of this website and its pages auto­ma­ti­cally coll­ects and stores infor­ma­tion in so-called server log files, which your browser commu­ni­cates to us auto­ma­ti­cally. The infor­ma­tion comprises:

• The type and version of browser used
• The used opera­ting system
• Referrer URL
• The host­name of the acces­sing computer
• The time of the server inquiry
• The IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The operator of the website has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the tech­ni­cally error free depic­tion and the opti­miza­tion of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

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.

5. Analysis tools and adver­ti­sing

Google Analy­tics

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

Google Analy­tics enables the website operator to analyze the beha­vior patterns of website visi­tors. To that end, the website operator receives a variety of user data, such as pages accessed, time spent on the page, the utilized opera­ting system and the user’s origin. This data is assi­gned to the respec­tive end device of the user. An assign­ment to a user-ID does not take place.

Further­more, Google Analy­tics allows us to record your mouse and scroll move­ments and clicks, among other things. Google Analy­tics uses various mode­ling approa­ches to augment the coll­ected data sets and uses machine lear­ning tech­no­lo­gies in data analysis.

Google Analy­tics uses tech­no­lo­gies that make the reco­gni­tion of the user for the purpose of analy­zing the user beha­vior patterns (e.g., cookies or device finger­prin­ting). The website use infor­ma­tion recorded by Google is, as a rule trans­ferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is stored.

The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your consent 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://​privacy​.google​.com/​b​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​e​s​/​c​o​n​t​r​o​l​l​e​r​t​e​r​m​s​/​m​c​cs/.

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​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​s​/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​–​s​e​a​r​c​h​/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​–​d​e​t​a​i​l​?​c​o​n​t​a​c​t​=​t​r​u​e​&​i​d​=​a​2​z​t​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​1​L​5​A​A​I​&​s​t​a​t​u​s​=​A​c​t​ive

IP anony­miza­tion

Google Analy­tics IP anony­miza­tion is active. As a result, your IP address will be abbre­viated by Google within the member states of the Euro­pean Union or in other states that have rati­fied the Conven­tion on the Euro­pean Economic Area prior to its trans­mis­sion to the United States. The full IP address will be trans­mitted to one of Google’s servers in the United States and abbre­viated there only in excep­tional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google shall use this infor­ma­tion to analyze your use of this website to gene­rate reports on website acti­vi­ties and to render other services to the operator of this website that are related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address trans­mitted in conjunc­tion with Google Analy­tics from your browser shall not be merged with other data in Google’s posses­sion.

Browser plug-in

You can prevent the recor­ding and proces­sing of your data by Google by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the browser plugin available under the follo­wing link: https://​tools​.google​.com/​d​l​p​a​g​e​/​g​a​o​p​t​o​u​t​?​h​l​=en.

For more infor­ma­tion about the hand­ling of user data by Google Analy­tics, please consult Google’s Data Privacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://​support​.google​.com/​a​n​a​l​y​t​i​c​s​/​a​n​s​w​e​r​/​6​0​0​4​2​4​5​?​h​l​=en.

Contract data proces­sing

We have executed a contract data proces­sing agree­ment with Google and are imple­men­ting the strin­gent provi­sions of the German data protec­tion agen­cies to the fullest when using Google Analy­tics.

Matomo

This website uses the open-source web analysis service Matomo.

Through Matomo, we are able to collect and analyze data on the use of our website-by-website visi­tors. This enables us to find out, for instance, when which page views occurred and from which region they came. In addi­tion, we collect various log files (e.g. IP address, referrer, browser, and opera­ting system used) and can measure whether our website visi­tors perform certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases, etc.).

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the analysis of user patterns, in order to opti­mize the operator’s web offe­rings and adver­ti­sing. If appro­priate consent has been obtained, the proces­sing is carried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, 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 TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time.

IP anony­miza­tion

For analysis with Matomo we use IP anony­miza­tion. Your IP address is shor­tened before the analysis, so that it is no longer clearly assi­gnable to you.

Hosting

We host Matomo with the follo­wing third-party provider:

Wir nutzen die Matomo Cloud als Hostin­g­an­bieter für Matomo. Betrieben wird Matomo von Inno­Craft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, New Zealand. Die Matomo Cloud befindet sich in Deutsch­land. https://matomo.org/matomo–cloud–dpa/

Google Ads

The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online promo­tional program of Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Ads enables us to display ads in the Google search engine or on third-party websites, if the user enters certain search terms into Google (keyword targe­ting). It is also possible to place targeted ads based on the user data Google has in its posses­sion (e.g., loca­tion data and inte­rests; target group targe­ting). As the website operator, we can analyze these data quan­ti­ta­tively, for instance by analy­zing which search terms resulted in the display of our ads and how many ads led to respec­tive clicks.

The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your consent 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://​poli​cies​.google​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​/​f​r​a​m​e​w​o​rks and https://​privacy​.google​.com/​b​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​e​s​/​c​o​n​t​r​o​l​l​e​r​t​e​r​m​s​/​m​c​cs/.

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​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​s​/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​–​s​e​a​r​c​h​/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​–​d​e​t​a​i​l​?​c​o​n​t​a​c​t​=​t​r​u​e​&​i​d​=​a​2​z​t​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​1​L​5​A​A​I​&​s​t​a​t​u​s​=​A​c​t​ive

Google Conver­­­sion-Tracking

This website uses Google Conver­sion Tracking. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

With the assis­tance of Google Conver­sion Tracking, we are in a posi­tion to reco­gnize whether the user has completed certain actions. For instance, we can analyze the how frequently which buttons on our website have been clicked and which products are reviewed or purchased with parti­cular frequency. The purpose of this infor­ma­tion is to compile conver­sion statis­tics. We learn how many users have clicked on our ads and which actions they have completed. We do not receive any infor­ma­tion that would allow us to perso­nally iden­tify the users. Google as such uses cookies or compa­rable reco­gni­tion tech­no­lo­gies for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion purposes.

The use of these services occurs on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. You may revoke your consent at any time.

For more infor­ma­tion about Google Conver­sion Tracking, please review Google’s data protec­tion policy at: https://​poli​cies​.google​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​?​h​l​=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​.data​pri​va​cy​frame​work​.gov/​s​/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​–​s​e​a​r​c​h​/​p​a​r​t​i​c​i​p​a​n​t​–​d​e​t​a​i​l​?​c​o​n​t​a​c​t​=​t​r​u​e​&​i​d​=​a​2​z​t​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​0​1​L​5​A​A​I​&​s​t​a​t​u​s​=​A​c​t​ive

6. Plug-ins and Tools

Google Fonts (local embed­ding)

This website uses so-called Google Fonts provided by Google to ensure the uniform use of fonts on this site. These Google fonts are locally installed so that a connec­tion to Google’s servers will not be estab­lished in conjunc­tion with this appli­ca­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion on Google Fonts, please follow this link: https://​deve​lo​pers​.google​.com/​f​o​n​t​s​/​faq and consult Google’s Data Privacy Decla­ra­tion under: https://​poli​cies​.google​.com/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​?​h​l​=en.

SolidWP

We have inte­grated SolidWP into this website. The provider is iThemes Media LLC, 1720 South Kelly Avenue Edmond, OK 73013, USA (herein­after referred to as “SolidWP”).

SolidWP protects our website against unde­si­rable access or mali­cious cyber-attacks. For this purpose, SolidWP records, among other things, your IP address, the time, and source of login attempts and log files (e.g., the utilized browser). SolidWP is installed locally on our servers.

SolidWP trans­mits IP addresses of recur­ring atta­ckers to a central data­base of SolidWP in the US (Network Brute Force Protec­tion) to prevent such attacks in the future.

The use of SolidWP is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in protec­ting its website opti­mally against cyber-attacks. If appro­priate consent has been obtained, the proces­sing is carried out exclu­si­vely on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, 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 TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time.