Privacy Policy

1. Privacy at a Glance

General Notes

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. Detailed information on the topic of data protection can be found in our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data Collection on this Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. Their contact details can be found in the section “Notice on the Data Controller” in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

Your data are collected, on the one hand, by you providing them to us. This can be, for example, data you enter into a contact form.

Other data are collected automatically or after your consent when you visit the website by our IT systems. These are mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or time of the page request). The collection of these data occurs automatically as soon as you enter this website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior. If contracts can be concluded or initiated via the website, the transmitted data will also be processed for contract offers, orders, or other service inquiries.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

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

For this and further questions on the subject of data protection, you can contact us at any time.

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

When visiting this website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with so-called analysis programs.

Detailed information about these analysis programs can be found in the following privacy policy.

2. Hosting

We host the contents of our website with the following provider:

Strato

The provider is Strato AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin (hereinafter “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(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the most reliable possible presentation of our website. If a corresponding consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG (German Telecommunications‑Telemedia Data Protection Act), insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The 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 as well as this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains which data we collect and what we use them for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. A completely secure protection of data from access by third parties is not possible.

Notice on the Data Controller

The data controller for data processing on this website is:

Andreas Bellstedt Brunnenstr. 38 75387 Neubulach Germany

E-mail: blog@andibellstedt.com

The data controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses or similar).

Storage Period

Unless a more specific storage period is stated within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing ceases. If you assert a justified request for erasure or revoke a 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 retention periods); in the latter case, deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.

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 pursuant to Art. 9(1) GDPR are processed. In the case of an express consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, the data processing also takes place on the basis of Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or to access information on your end device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), the data processing also takes place on the basis of § 25(1) TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time. If your data are necessary for the performance 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, we process your data if it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. The data processing may also be based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The respective applicable legal bases in individual cases are explained in the following paragraphs of this privacy policy.

Note on Data Transfer to Third Countries Without an Adequate Level of Data Protection and Transfer to US Companies That Are Not DPF‑Certified

We use, among other things, tools from companies based in third countries that do not provide an adequate level of data protection as well as US tools whose providers are not certified under the EU‑US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). If these tools are active, your personal data may be transferred to and processed in these countries. We point out that in such third countries no level of data protection comparable to that in the EU can be guaranteed.

We point out that the USA generally offers a level of data protection comparable to the EU. A transfer of data to the USA is therefore permissible if the recipient is certified under the “EU‑US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF) or has appropriate additional guarantees. Information on transfers to third countries including data recipients can be found in this privacy policy.

Recipients of Personal Data

In the course of our business activities, we work with various external entities. In some cases it may also be necessary to transfer personal data to these external entities. We only pass on personal data to external entities if this is necessary for contract fulfillment, if we are legally obliged 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 data transfer. When using processors, we only pass on personal data of our customers on the basis of a valid contract for order processing. In the case of joint processing, a contract on joint processing is concluded.

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke any consent already given at any time. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PROCESSING IS BASED ON ART. 6(1)(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH A PROCESSING OPERATION IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA 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 DEFENSE OF LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21(1) GDPR).

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

Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of violations 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 the place of the alleged infringement. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfillment of a contract, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and the right to transmit those data to another controller. If you request direct transmission of the data to another controller, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

Information, Correction and Deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain free information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing, and, if applicable, a right to correction or deletion of these data. For this and further questions about personal data, you can contact us at any time.

Right to Restrict Processing

You have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data. You may contact us at any time to do so. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

  • If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we generally need time to verify this. During the period of the review, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
  • If the processing of your personal data was/ is unlawful, you can request restriction of processing instead of deletion.
  • If we no longer need your personal data, but you need them for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, you have the right to request restriction of processing instead of deletion.
  • If you have objected under Art. 21(1) GDPR, a balancing of interests between your interests and ours must be carried out. As long as it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data may — apart from their storage — only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the European Union or 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 inquiries that you send to the site operator. You can identify an encrypted connection by the change of the address line of the browser from “http://” to “https://” and 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 Unsolicited Promotional Emails

The use of contact details published as part of the legal notice (Impressum) for the sending of unsolicited advertising and information materials is hereby contradicted. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

4. Data Collection on this Website

Cookies

Our websites use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small data packages and do not cause any damage to your end device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (persistent cookies) on your end device. Session cookies are automatically deleted after your visit ends. Persistent cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them yourself or an automatic deletion by your web browser occurs.

Cookies can come 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 web pages (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have different functions. Many cookies are technically necessary because certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the shopping cart function or the display of videos). Other cookies can be used to evaluate user behavior or for advertising purposes.

Cookies that are necessary for the execution of the electronic communication process, for the provision of certain functions you desire (e.g. for the shopping cart function), or for optimizing the website (e.g. cookies to measure the web audience) (necessary cookies) are stored on the basis of Art. 6(1)(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 optimized 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(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG); 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, accept cookies for certain cases or generally exclude them, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

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

Contact Requests via E-Mail, Telephone or Fax

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

The processing of these data is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your inquiry is related to the performance 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 effectively handling inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) if this has been requested; the consent can be revoked at any time.

The data you send us via contact inquiries will remain with us until you ask us to delete them, revoke your consent to storage, or the purpose for the data storage ceases (e.g. after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions — in particular statutory retention periods — remain unaffected.

5. Plugins and Tools

YouTube

This website embeds videos from the YouTube website. The operator of the website is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

If you visit one of our web pages on which YouTube is embedded, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited.

Furthermore, YouTube may store various cookies on your end device or use comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting). In this way, YouTube can obtain information about visitors to this website. This information is used, among other things, to collect video statistics, improve user friendliness, and prevent fraud attempts. Furthermore, the recorded data are processed within the Google advertising network.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to directly associate your surfing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

The use of YouTube is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offerings. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If a corresponding consent has been obtained, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information on the handling of user data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

The company holds a certification under the “EU‑US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards in data processing in the USA. Any 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.

Font Awesome

This site uses Font Awesome for the consistent presentation of fonts and icons. The provider is Fonticons, Inc., 6 Porter Road Apartment 3R, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

When a page is called up, your browser loads the required fonts into its browser cache to display texts, fonts, and icons correctly. For this purpose, the browser you use must establish a connection to the Font Awesome servers. As a result, Font Awesome becomes aware that this website was accessed via your IP address. The use of Font Awesome is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the uniform presentation of the typography on our website. If a corresponding consent has been obtained, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s end device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. The consent can be revoked at any time.

If your browser does not support Font Awesome, a default font from your computer will be used.

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

Source: https://www.e-recht24.de