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 our 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 our 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 Required by Law“ on this web­site.

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.

Our IT sys­tems auto­ma­ti­cally record other data when you visit our web­site. 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 our 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 ana­lyse 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, blo­cked or era­di­cated. Please do not hesi­tate to contact us at any time under the address dis­c­losed in sec­tion „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law“ on this web­site if you have ques­tions about this or any other data pro­tec­tion related issues. You also have the right to log a com­plaint with the com­pe­tent super­vi­sing agency.

Moreover, under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances, you have the right to demand the rest­ric­tion of the pro­ces­sing of your per­sonal data. For details, please con­sult the Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion under sec­tion „Right to Rest­ric­tion of Data Pro­ces­sing.“

Ana­lysis tools and tools pro­vided by third par­ties

There is a pos­si­bi­lity that your brow­sing pat­terns will be sta­tis­ti­cally ana­lysed when your visit our web­site. Such ana­lyses are per­formed pri­ma­rily with coo­kies and with what we refer to as ana­lysis pro­grammes. As a rule, the ana­lyses of your brow­sing pat­terns are con­ducted anony­mously; i.e. the brow­sing pat­terns cannot be traced back to you.

You have the option to object to such ana­lyses or you can pre­vent their per­for­mance by not using cer­tain tools. For detailed infor­ma­tion about the tools and about your options to object, please con­sult our Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion below.

2. 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:

A-Z Maschi­nen­welt GmbH
Phone: +4971155342658
E-Mail: info@az-maschinenwelt.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.).

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. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal noti­fi­ca­tion via e-mail. 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 Sect. 1 lit. 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 Sect. 1 GDPR).

If your per­sonal data is being pro­cessed in order to engage in direct adver­ti­sing, you have the right to at any time object to the pro­ces­sing of your affected per­sonal data for the pur­poses of such adver­ti­sing. 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 Sect. 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. A list of data pro­tec­tion offi­cers and their contact details can be found at the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/anschriften_table.html (Ger­many) and https://www.data-protection-authority.gv.at/ (Aus­tria).

Right to data por­ta­bi­lity

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we auto­ma­ti­cally pro­cess on the basis of your con­sent or in order to fulfil a con­tract be handed over to you or a third party in a com­monly used, 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.

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 pro­gramme. You can reco­g­nise 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.

Encrypted pay­ment tran­sac­tions on this web­site

If you are under an obli­ga­tion to share your pay­ment infor­ma­tion (e.g. account number if you give us the aut­ho­rity to debit your bank account) with us after you have entered into a fee-based con­tract with us, this infor­ma­tion is required to pro­cess pay­ments.

Pay­ment tran­sac­tions using common modes of paying (Visa/MasterCard, debit to your bank account) are pro­cessed exclu­si­vely via encrypted SSL or TLS con­nec­tions. You can reco­g­nise 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 com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us is encrypted, third par­ties will not be able to read the pay­ment infor­ma­tion you share with us.

Infor­ma­tion about, blockage, rec­ti­fi­ca­tion and era­di­ca­tion of data

Within the scope of the appli­cable sta­tu­tory pro­vi­sions, you have the right to at any time demand infor­ma­tion about your archived per­sonal data, their source and reci­pi­ents as well as the pur­pose of the pro­ces­sing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rec­ti­fied, blo­cked 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 at the address pro­vided in sec­tion „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law.“

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 at the address pro­vided in sec­tion „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law.“ 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 in lieu 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 Sect. 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.

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 sec­tion „Infor­ma­tion Required by Law“ 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.

3. Recor­ding of data on our web­site

Coo­kies

This web­site uses in par­ti­cular coo­kies or other tech­no­lo­gies that are abso­lutely neces­sary or such as func­tional coo­kies so that the accessed web­site and func­tions can be made available to you, Sec­tion 25 Para­graph 2 Number 2 of the Tele­com­mu­ni­ca­tions Tele­media Data Pro­tec­tion Act (TDDDG ), Article 6 para­graph 1 sub­pa­ra­graph 1 letter f GDPR.

If you give your con­sent for optional ser­vices and non-essential coo­kies, the legal basis is Sec­tion 25 Para­graph 1 TDDDG, Article 6 Para­graph 1 Sub­pa­ra­graph 1 Letter a GDPR (con­sent). You can obtain fur­ther infor­ma­tion about this and the coo­kies or ser­vices used at any time from the con­sent manage­ment tool used and revoke your con­sent at any time, freely and wit­hout dis­ad­van­tage, with effect for the future. Please note, however, that our web­site does not always func­tion as intended wit­hout the coo­kies used.

You can view the coo­kies used in our tool and edit and revoke any con­sent you may have, etc. there at any time. The revo­ca­tion of con­sent does not affect the lawful­ness of the pro­ces­sing car­ried out based on the con­sent before its revo­ca­tion.

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 Sect. 1 lit. 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 send us inqui­ries using the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, inclu­ding the contact details you pro­vided there, will be stored by us in order to pro­cess the inquiry and in case of follow-up ques­tions. The legal basis for this is Article 6 para­graph 1 sub­pa­ra­graph 1 letter b GDPR. We will not pass on this data wit­hout your con­sent. The data you enter in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your con­sent to sto­rage or the pur­pose for data sto­rage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been pro­cessed). Man­da­tory legal pro­vi­sions – in par­ti­cular reten­tion periods – remain unaf­fected.

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.

The pro­ces­sing of these data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. 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 your con­sent (Article 6 (1) a GDPR) and/or on our legi­ti­mate inte­rests (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR), since we have a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the effec­tive pro­ces­sing of requests addressed to us.

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.

Regis­tra­tion on this web­site

You have the option to register on our web­site to be able to use addi­tional web­site func­tions. We shall use the data you enter only for the pur­pose of using the respec­tive offer or ser­vice you have regis­tered for. The required infor­ma­tion we request at the time of regis­tra­tion must be entered in full. Other­wise we shall reject the regis­tra­tion. The legal basis for this is Article 6 para­graph 1 sub­pa­ra­graph 1 letter b GDPR.

To notify you of any important changes to the scope of our port­folio or in the event of tech­nical modi­fi­ca­tions, we shall use the e-mail address pro­vided during the regis­tra­tion pro­cess.

We shall pro­cess the data entered during the regis­tra­tion pro­cess on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revoke at any time any con­sent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal noti­fi­ca­tion via e-mail. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to the lawful­ness of any data coll­ec­tion that occurred prior to your revo­ca­tion.

The data recorded during the regis­tra­tion pro­cess shall be stored by us as long as you are regis­tered on our web­site. Sub­se­quently, such data shall be deleted. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to man­da­tory sta­tu­tory reten­tion obli­ga­tions.

Pro­ces­sing of data (cus­tomer and con­tract data)

We collect, pro­cess and use per­sonal data only to the extent neces­sary for the estab­lish­ment, con­tent orga­niza­tion or change of the legal rela­ti­onship (data inven­tory). These actions are taken on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, which per­mits the pro­ces­sing of data for the ful­filment of a con­tract or pre-contractual actions. We collect, pro­cess and use per­sonal data con­cer­ning the use of our web­site (usage data) only to the extent that this is neces­sary to make it pos­sible for users to uti­lize the ser­vices and to bill for them.

The coll­ected cus­tomer data shall be era­di­cated upon com­ple­tion of the order or the ter­mi­na­tion of the busi­ness rela­ti­onship. This shall be wit­hout pre­ju­dice to any sta­tu­tory reten­tion man­dates.

Data transfer upon clo­sing of con­tracts for online stores, retailers and the ship­ment of mer­chan­dise

We share per­sonal data with third par­ties only if this is neces­sary in con­junc­tion with the hand­ling of the con­tract; for ins­tance, with com­pa­nies ent­rusted with the ship­ment of goods or the finan­cial insti­tu­tion tasked with the pro­ces­sing of pay­ments. Any fur­ther transfer of data shall not occur or shall only occur if you have expressly con­sented to the transfer. Any sha­ring of your data with third par­ties in the absence of your express con­sent, for ins­tance for adver­ti­sing pur­poses, shall not occur.

The basis for the pro­ces­sing of data is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, which per­mits the pro­ces­sing of data for the ful­filment of a con­tract or for pre-contractual actions.

Data transfer upon clo­sing of con­tracts for ser­vices and digital con­tent

We share per­sonal data with third par­ties only if this is neces­sary in con­junc­tion with the hand­ling of the con­tract; for ins­tance, with the finan­cial insti­tu­tion tasked with the pro­ces­sing of pay­ments.

Any fur­ther transfer of data shall not occur or shall only occur if you have expressly con­sented to the transfer. Any sha­ring of your data with third par­ties in the absence of your express con­sent, for ins­tance for adver­ti­sing pur­poses, shall not occur.

The basis for the pro­ces­sing of data is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, which per­mits the pro­ces­sing of data for the ful­filment of a con­tract or for pre-contractual actions.

Regis­tra­tion with Face­book Con­nect

Ins­tead of regis­tering directly on our web­site, you also have the option to register using Face­book Con­nect. The pro­vider of this ser­vice is Face­book Ire­land Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ire­land.

If you decide to register via Face­book Con­nect and click on the „Login with Facebook“/„Connect with Face­book“ button, you will be auto­ma­ti­cally con­nected to the Face­book plat­form. There, you can log in using your user­name and pass­word. As a result, your Face­book pro­file will be linked to our web­site or our ser­vices. This link gives us access to the data you have archived with Face­book. These data com­prise pri­ma­rily the fol­lo­wing:

• Face­book name
• Face­book pro­file photo and cover photo
• Face­book cover photo
• E-mail address archived with Face­book
• Facebook-ID
• Face­book fri­ends lists
• Face­book Likes („Likes“ infor­ma­tion)
• Date of birth
• Gender
• Country
• Lan­guage

This infor­ma­tion will be used to set up, pro­vide and cus­to­mise your account. The regis­tra­tion via Face­book Con­nect and the affi­liated data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions are imple­mented on the basis of your con­sent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may revoke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future tran­sac­tions the­re­after. 

For more infor­ma­tion, please con­sult the Face­book Terms of Use and the Face­book Data Pri­vacy Poli­cies. Use these links to access this infor­ma­tion: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ and https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/.

The com­ment func­tion on this web­site

When you use the com­ment func­tion on this web­site, infor­ma­tion on the time the com­ment was gene­rated and your e-mail-address and, if you are not pos­ting anony­mously, the user name you have sel­ected will be archived in addi­tion to your comm­ents.

Sto­rage of the IP address

Our com­ment func­tion stores the IP addresses of all users who enter comm­ents. Given that we do not review the comm­ents prior to publi­shing them, we need this infor­ma­tion in order to take action against the author in the event of rights vio­la­tions, such as defa­ma­tion or pro­pa­ganda.

Sub­scribing to comm­ents

As a user of this web­site, you have the option to sub­scribe to comm­ents after you have regis­tered. You will receive a con­fir­ma­tion e-mail, the pur­pose of which is to verify whe­ther you are the actual holder of the pro­vided e-mail address. You can deac­ti­vate this func­tion at any time by fol­lo­wing a respec­tive link in the infor­ma­tion e-mails. The data entered in con­junc­tion with sub­scrip­tions to comm­ents will be deleted in this case. However, if you have com­mu­ni­cated this infor­ma­tion to us for other pur­poses and from a dif­fe­rent loca­tion (e.g. when sub­scribing to the news­letter), the data shall remain in our pos­ses­sion.

Sto­rage period for comm­ents

Comm­ents and any affi­liated infor­ma­tion (e.g. the IP address) shall be stored by us and remain on our web­site until the con­tent the com­ment per­tained to has been deleted in its enti­rety or if the comm­ents had to be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. insul­ting comm­ents).

Legal basis

The comm­ents are stored based on your con­sent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or to ful­fill the con­tract (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR). You can revoke your con­sent at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal email. The lega­lity of the data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­tions that have already taken place remains unaf­fected by the revo­ca­tion.

4. Plugins und tools

Google Web Fonts (local embed­ding)

This web­site uses so-called Web 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.

Google Maps

Via an API, this web­site uses the map­ping ser­vice Google Maps. The pro­vider is Google Ire­land Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ire­land.

To enable the use of the Google Maps fea­tures, your IP address must be stored. As a rule, this infor­ma­tion is trans­ferred to one of Google’s ser­vers in the United States, where it is archived. The ope­rator of this web­site has no con­trol over the data transfer.

The use of Google Maps is in the inte­rest of an attrac­tive pre­sen­ta­tion of our online offe­rings and to make it easy to find the places we indi­cate on the web­site. This repres­ents a legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the Google ser­vices are only actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

For more infor­ma­tion on the hand­ling of user data, please review Google’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Adobe Fonts

In order to ensure the uni­form depic­tion of cer­tain fonts, our 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 our 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 our web­site. Accor­ding to the infor­ma­tion pro­vided by Adobe, no coo­kies will be stored in con­junc­tion with the pro­vi­sion of the fonts.

Adobe is in pos­ses­sion of a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in accordance with the EU-US Pri­vacy Shield. The Pri­vacy Shield is a com­pact rati­fied bet­ween the United States of Ame­rica and the Euro­pean Union, aiming to war­rant com­pli­ance with Euro­pean Data Pro­tec­tion Stan­dards. For more infor­ma­tion, please follow this link: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/eudatatransfers.html.

The use of Adobe Fonts is neces­sary to ensure a con­sis­tent type­face on our web­site. This repres­ents a legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter a of the GDPR.

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.

You­Tube with expanded data pro­tec­tion inte­gra­tion

Our web­site uses plug-ins of the You­Tube plat­form, which is being ope­rated by Google Ire­land Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ire­land.

We use You­Tube in the expanded data pro­tec­tion mode. Accor­ding to You­Tube, this mode ensures that You­Tube does not store any infor­ma­tion about visi­tors to this web­site before they watch the video. Nevert­heless, this does not neces­s­a­rily mean that the sha­ring of data with You­Tube part­ners can be ruled out as a result of the expanded data pro­tec­tion mode. For ins­tance, regard­less of whe­ther you are wat­ching a video, You­Tube will always estab­lish a con­nec­tion with the Google Dou­ble­Click net­work.

As soon as you start to play a You­Tube video on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to YouTube’s ser­vers will be estab­lished. As a result, the You­Tube server will be noti­fied, which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your You­Tube account while you visit our site, you enable You­Tube to directly allo­cate your brow­sing pat­terns to your per­sonal pro­file. You have the option to pre­vent this by log­ging out of your You­Tube account.

Fur­ther­more, after you have started to play a video, You­Tube will be able to place various coo­kies on your device. With the assis­tance of these coo­kies, You­Tube will be able to obtain infor­ma­tion about our web­site visitor. Among other things, this infor­ma­tion will be used to gene­rate video sta­tis­tics with the aim of impro­ving the user fri­end­li­ness of the site and to pre­vent attempts to commit fraud. These coo­kies will stay on your device until you delete them.

Under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances, addi­tional data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions may be trig­gered after you have started to play a You­Tube video, which are beyond our con­trol.

The use of You­Tube is in the inte­rest of an attrac­tive pre­sen­ta­tion of our online offe­rings. This repres­ents a legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the Google ser­vices are only actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For more infor­ma­tion on how You­Tube handles user data, please con­sult the You­Tube Data Pri­vacy Policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Vimeo

Our web­site uses plug-ins of the video portal Vimeo. The pro­vider is Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of the pages on our web­site into which a Vimeo plug-in has been inte­grated, a con­nec­tion to Vimeo’s ser­vers will be estab­lished. As a con­se­quence, the Vimeo server will receive infor­ma­tion as to which of our pages you have visited. Moreover, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This will also happen if you are not logged into Vimeo or do not have an account with Vimeo. The infor­ma­tion recorded by Vimeo will be trans­mitted to Vimeo’s server in the United States.

If you are logged into your Vimeo account, you enable Vimeo to directly allo­cate your brow­sing pat­terns to your per­sonal pro­file. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your Vimeo account.

The use of Vimeo is in the inte­rest of an attrac­tive pre­sen­ta­tion of our online offe­rings. This repres­ents a legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter a of the GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For more infor­ma­tion on how Vimeo handles user data, please con­sult the Vimeo Data Pri­vacy Policy under: https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Sound­Cloud

We may have inte­grated plug-ins of the social net­work Sound­Cloud (Sound­Cloud Limited, Ber­ners House, 47-48 Ber­ners Street, London W1T 3NF, Great Bri­tain) into our web­sites. You will be able to reco­g­nise such Sound­Cloud plug-ins by che­cking for the Sound­Cloud logo on the respec­tive pages.

When­ever you visit one of our web­sites, a direct con­nec­tion bet­ween your browser and the Sound­Cloud server will be estab­lished imme­dia­tely after the plug-in has been acti­vated. As a result, Sound­Cloud will be noti­fied that you have used your IP address to visit our site. If you click the „Like“ button or the „Share“ button while you are logged into your Sound Cloud user account, you can link the con­tent of our web­sites to your Sound­Cloud pro­file and/or share the con­tent. Con­se­quently, Sound­Cloud will be able to allo­cate the visit to our web­site to your user account. We empha­size that we as the pro­vider of the web­sites do not have any know­ledge of the data trans­ferred and the use of this data by Sound­Cloud.

The use of Sound­Cloud is based on Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter f GDPR. The web­site ope­rator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in achie­ving the grea­test pos­sible visi­bi­lity on social media. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For more infor­ma­tion about this, please con­sult SoundCloud’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

If you prefer not to have your visit to our web­sites allo­cated to your Sound­Cloud user account by Sound­Cloud, please log out of your Sound­Cloud user account before you acti­vate con­tent of the Sound­Cloud plug-in.

Spo­tify

We have inte­grated fea­tures of the Spo­tify music plat­form into our web­sites. The pro­vider is Spo­tify AB, Birger Jarls­gatan 61, 113 56 Stock­holm, Sweden. You will be able to reco­g­nise Spo­tify plug-ins when you see the green logo on our pages. An over­view of Spotify’s plug-ins can be found at: https://developer.spotify.com.

The plug-in makes it pos­sible to estab­lish a direct con­nec­tion bet­ween your browser and Spotify’s server when you visit our web­sites. As a result, Spo­tify receives the infor­ma­tion that you visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Spo­tify button while you are logged into your Spo­tify account, you have the option to link con­tent from our page with your Spo­tify pro­file. Con­se­quently, Spo­tify will be in a posi­tion to allo­cate your visit to our web­sites to your user account.

Data pro­ces­sing is car­ried out on the basis of Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. The web­site ope­rator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the attrac­tive acou­stic design of his web­site. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For more infor­ma­tion, please con­sult Spotify’s Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion under: https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/.

If you do not want Spo­tify to be able to allo­cate the visit of our web­sites to your Spo­tify user account, please log out of your Spo­tify user account while visi­ting our sites.

Zen­desk

We deploy the CRM system Zen­desk to pro­cess user inqui­ries. The pro­vider is Zen­desk, Inc, 1019 Market Street in San Fran­cisco, CA 94103 USA.

We use Zen­desk to be able to respond to your inqui­ries promptly and effi­ci­ently. The legal basis for the pro­ces­sing of your data is our legi­ti­mate inte­rest as defined in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR.

As a U.S.-based pro­vider, Zen­desk is Pri­vacy Shield cer­ti­fied, which means that the com­pany under­takes to comply with the EU data pro­tec­tion regu­la­tions. In addi­tion, we have exe­cuted a con­tract data pro­ces­sing agree­ment with Zen­desk (Data Pro­ces­sing Agree­ment, DPA). This ensures that Zen­desk pro­cesses the user data received only within the frame­work of the EU data pro­tec­tion stan­dards and exclu­si­vely for the pro­ces­sing of inqui­ries and that Zen­desk will not share these data with third par­ties.

In order to be able to submit inqui­ries, you must pro­vide your e-mail address and name. If you should not want to agree to the pro­ces­sing of your inqui­ries by us via Zen­desk, you have the alter­na­tive option to com­mu­ni­cate with us via e-mail, tele­phone or fax.

For more infor­ma­tion, please con­sult Zendesk’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://www.zendesk.com/company/customers-partners/privacy-policy/.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use „Google reCAPTCHA“ (her­ein­after referred to as „reCAPTCHA“) on our web­sites. 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 our web­sites (e.g. infor­ma­tion entered into a contact form) is being pro­vided by a human user or by an auto­mated pro­gram. To deter­mine this, reCAPTCHA ana­lyses the beha­viour 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 pro­ces­sing is car­ried out on the basis of Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. The web­site ope­rator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in pro­tec­ting its web offe­rings from abu­sive auto­mated spying and SPAM. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For more infor­ma­tion about Google reCAPTCHA and to review the Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion of Google, please follow these links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html.

Use of Ever­CAPTCHA

To pro­tect our contact form against unwanted use, we use the Ever­CAPTCHA ser­vice of our web­site creator and hoster United Media AG, Han­sa­allee 299, 40549 Düs­sel­dorf. This ser­vice is pro­vided by the sub-processor: wwwe GmbH, Han­sa­allee 299, 40549 Düs­sel­dorf. Ever­CAPTCHA makes it pos­sible to distin­guish whe­ther the data entered in the contact form was actually entered by a human or abu­si­vely auto­mated by a machine, a so-called spambot.

For this pur­pose, various ques­tions are asked when using our forms (e.g.: “Click on an X symbol”, etc.). Ever­CAPTCHA saves all failed attempts by a user, an IP address via a ses­sion ID, which is stored in Local­S­to­rage. The ses­sion ID is trans­mitted to the server via Java­Script with every request. If 30 incor­rect ent­ries are made, the user’s IP address is per­ma­nently stored in a spam pre­ven­tion data­base. Other­wise, the IP addresses will be deleted within 7 days. Data pro­ces­sing is car­ried out on the basis of Article 6 Para­graph 1 Letter f of the GDPR. The web­site ope­rator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in pro­tec­ting its web offe­rings from abu­sive auto­mated spying and SPAM.

Widget Your­Rate

We have imple­mented a rating widget on our web­site. You can find out general infor­ma­tion about wid­gets there: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget.

The widget we use is imple­mented as part of our web­site offer from yourrate.com. The pro­vider of this ser­vice is the sub­con­tractor of our pro­vider, namely Euroweb Internet GmbH, Han­sa­allee 299, 40549 Düs­sel­dorf. We have entered into cor­re­spon­ding agree­ments with our pro­cessor and the pro­cessor with his sub-processor. Fur­ther details on data pro­ces­sing can also be found in the terms and con­di­tions at https://www.yourrate.com/de/agb (her­ein­after: Your­Rate).

Your­Rate requests data through the rating widget on our web­site. When you access the widget, your device estab­lishes a con­nec­tion to YourRate’s ser­vers via the browser you are using. This pri­ma­rily involves coll­ec­ting your IP address. This data will not be merged with other data sources. The tem­po­rary sto­rage of the IP address by the system is tech­ni­cally neces­sary to enable the web­site and wid­gets to be deli­vered to your device, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In par­ti­cular, there is no tracking and no sta­tis­tical eva­lua­tion.

5. Social media

Inte­gra­tion of social media con­tent

On this web­site we have inte­grated a tool for the imple­men­ta­tion of social media con­tent from the pro­vider Curator Group, 69 Ruthven Street, Bondi Junc­tion, NSW 2022 Aus­tralia. Details on the data pro­ces­sing in con­nec­tion with the ser­vice can be found in the provider’s data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­tion, https://curator.io/privacy-policy. The legal basis for inte­gra­ting the tool is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­mate inte­rest lies in opti­mi­zing the user-friendliness of the web­site and enab­ling the inte­gra­tion of social media posts. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

Social media plug-ins with Sha­riff

We do use plug-ins of social media net­works on our web­site and its pages (e.g. Face­book, X, Google+, Insta­gram, Pin­te­rest, XING, Lin­kedIn, Tumblr).

As a rule, you will be able to reco­g­nise these plug-ins because of the respec­tive social media logos that appear. To war­rant the pro­tec­tion of data on our web­site, we use these plug-ins only in com­bi­na­tion with the so-called „Sha­riff“ solu­tion. This appli­ca­tion pre­vents the plug-ins that have been inte­grated into our web­site from trans­fer­ring data to the respec­tive pro­vider as soon as you enter our web­site.

A direct con­nec­tion to the provider’s server shall not be estab­lished until you have acti­vated the respec­tive plug-in by cli­cking on the affi­liated button (which indi­cates your con­sent). As soon as you acti­vate the plug-in, the respec­tive pro­vider receives the infor­ma­tion that you have visited our web­site with your IP address. If you are simul­ta­neously logged into your respec­tive social media account (e.g. Face­book), the respec­tive pro­vider will be able to allo­cate your visit to our web­site to your user account.

The acti­va­tion of the plug-in con­sti­tutes a decla­ra­tion of con­sent as defined in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR. You have the option to revoke this con­sent at any time, which shall affect all future tran­sac­tions.

Face­book plug-ins (Like & Share but­tons)

We have inte­grated plug-ins of the social net­work Face­book, pro­vided by Face­book Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, Cali­fornia 94025, USA, on our web­site. You will be able to reco­g­nise Face­book plug-ins by the Face­book logo or the „Like“ button on our web­site. An over­view of the Face­book plug-ins is available under the fol­lo­wing link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When­ever you visit our web­site and its pages, the plug-in will estab­lish a direct con­nec­tion bet­ween your browser and the Face­book server. As a result, Face­book will receive the infor­ma­tion that you have visited our web­site with your plug-in. However, if you click the Face­book „Like“ button while you are logged into your Face­book account, you can link the con­tent of our web­site and its pages with your Face­book pro­file. As a result, Face­book will be able to allo­cate the visit to our web­site and its pages to your Face­book user account. We have to point out, that we as the pro­vider of the web­site do not have any know­ledge of the trans­ferred data and its use by Face­book. For more detailed infor­ma­tion, please con­sult the Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion of Face­book at: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

If you do not want Face­book to be able to allo­cate your visit to our web­site and its pages to your Face­book user account, please log out of your Face­book account while you are on our web­site.

The use of the Face­book plug-in is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in being as visible as pos­sible on social media. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

Use of juicer.io

On this web­site we have inte­grated a tool for imple­men­ting social media con­tent from the pro­vider saas.group LLC, 304 S. Jones Blvd # 1205, Las Vegas NV 89107, USA. Details on the data pro­ces­sing in con­nec­tion with the ser­vice can be found in the provider’s data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­tion, https://www.juicer.io/privacy. The legal basis for inte­gra­ting the tool is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­mate inte­rest lies in opti­mi­zing the user-friendliness of the web­site and enab­ling the inte­gra­tion of social media con­tri­bu­tions. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

Twitter / X plug-in

We have inte­grated func­tions of the social media plat­form Twitter / X into our web­site. These func­tions are pro­vided by Twitter Inter­na­tional Unli­mited Com­pany, One Cum­ber­land Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07,
Ire­land. While you use Twitter / X and the „Re-Tweet“ func­tion, web­sites you visit are linked to your Twitter / X account and dis­c­losed to other users. During this pro­cess, data are trans­ferred to Twitter / X as well. 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 Twitter / X. For more details, please con­sult Twitter / X Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://x.com/en/privacy.

The use of Twitter / X plug-ins is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in being as visible as pos­sible on social media.

You have the option to reset your data pro­tec­tion set­tings on Twitter / X under the account set­tings at https://x.com/settings/account. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

Insta­gram plug-in

We have inte­grated func­tions of the public media plat­form Insta­gram into our web­site. These func­tions are being offered by Insta­gram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

If you are logged into your Insta­gram account, you may click the Insta­gram button to link con­tents from our web­site to your Insta­gram pro­file. This enables Insta­gram to allo­cate your visit to our 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 the Insta­gram plug-in is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in being as visible as pos­sible on social media. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

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

Tumblr plug-in

Our web­site and its pages use but­tons of the Tumblr plat­form. The pro­vider is Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA.

These but­tons enable you to share a report or a page on Tumblr or to follow the pro­vider on Tumblr. If you access one of our web­sites via the Tumblr button, your browser will estab­lish a direct con­nec­tion with Tumblr’s ser­vers. We do not have any con­trol over the volume of data Tumblr coll­ects and trans­fers with the assis­tance of this plug-in. Based on the cur­rent status of the infor­ma­tion we have the IP address of the user and the URL of the respec­tive web­site are both trans­ferred.

The use of the Tumblr plug-in is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in being as visible as pos­sible on social media. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this sub­ject, please con­sult Tumblr’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/de.

Lin­kedIn plug-in

Our web­site uses func­tions of the Lin­kedIn net­work. The pro­vider is Lin­kedIn Cor­po­ra­tion, 2029 Stierlin Court, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.

Any time you access one of our sites that con­tains func­tions of Lin­kedIn, a con­nec­tion to LinkedIn’s ser­vers is estab­lished. Lin­kedIn is noti­fied that you have visited our web­sites 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 our 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 the Lin­kedIn plug-in is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in being as visible as pos­sible on social media. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

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

XING plug-in

Our web­site uses func­tions of the XING net­work. The pro­vider is the XING AG, Damm­tor­straße 29-32, 20354 Ham­burg, Ger­many.

Any time one of our sites/pages that con­tains func­tions of XING is accessed, a con­nec­tion with XING’s ser­vers is estab­lished. As far as we know, this does not result in the archi­ving of any per­sonal data. In par­ti­cular, the ser­vice does not store any IP addresses or ana­lyse user pat­terns.

The use of the XING plug-in is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in being as visible as pos­sible on social media. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For more infor­ma­tion on data pro­tec­tion and the XING share button please con­sult the Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion of Xing at: https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

Pin­te­rest plug-in

We use social plug-ins of the social net­work Pin­te­rest on our web­site. The net­work is ope­rated by Pin­te­rest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Fran­cisco, CA 94103-490, USA („Pin­te­rest“).

If you access a site or page that con­tains such a plug-in, your browser will estab­lish a direct con­nec­tion with Pinterest’s ser­vers. During this pro­cess, the plug-in trans­fers log data to Pinterest’s ser­vers in the United States. The log data may pos­sibly include your IP address, the address of the web­sites you visited, which also con­tain Pin­te­rest func­tions. The infor­ma­tion also includes the type and set­tings of your browser, the data and time of the inquiry, how you use Pin­te­rest and coo­kies.

The use of the Pin­te­rest plug-in is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in being as visible as pos­sible on social media. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For more infor­ma­tion con­cer­ning the pur­pose, scope and con­tinue pro­ces­sing and use of the data by Pin­te­rest as well as your affi­liated rights and options to pro­tect your pri­vate infor­ma­tion, please con­sult the data pri­vacy infor­ma­tion of Pin­te­rest at: https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.

6. Ana­ly­tics and adver­ti­sing

Hotjar

This web­site uti­lizes Hotjar. The pro­vider is Hotjar Ltd., Level 2, St Julians Busi­ness Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta, Europe (web­site: https://www.hotjar.com).

Hotjar is a tool used to ana­lyse your user pat­terns on our web­site. Hotjar allows us to for ins­tance record your mouse and scroll move­ments as well as your click. During this pro­cess, Hotjar also has the capa­bi­lity to deter­mine how long your cursor remained in a cer­tain posi­tion. Based on this infor­ma­tion, Hotjar com­piles so-called Heat­maps, that make pos­sible to deter­mine which parts of the web­site the web­site visitor reviews with pre­fe­rence.

We are also able to deter­mine how long you have stayed on a page of our web­site and when you left. We can also deter­mine at which point you sus­pended making ent­ries into a contact form (so-called con­ver­sion fun­nels).

Fur­ther­more, Hotjar can be deployed to obtain direct feed­back from web­site visi­tors. This func­tion aims at the impro­ve­ment of the web­site offe­rings of the web­site ope­rator.

Hotjar uses coo­kies. Coo­kies are small text files that are placed on your com­puter and stored by your browser. Their pur­pose is to make our web­site pre­sen­ta­tion more user fri­endly, more effec­tive and more secure. These coo­kies allow us to in par­ti­cular deter­mine if our web­site was used with a cer­tain device or if the func­tions of Hotjar have been deac­ti­vated for the respec­tive browser. Hotjar coo­kies will remain on your device until you delete them.

You can set up your browser in such a manner that you will be noti­fied any­time coo­kies are placed and you can permit coo­kies only in cer­tain cases or exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain ins­tances or in general and you can also acti­vate the auto­matic dele­tion of coo­kies upon clo­sing of the browser. If you deac­ti­vate coo­kies, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

The use of Hotjar and the sto­rage of the Hotjar coo­kies are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. 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. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

Deac­ti­va­tion of Hotjar

If you would like to deac­ti­vate the recor­ding of data by Hotjar, please click on the link below and follow the ins­truc­tions pro­vided under the link: https://www.hotjar.com/policies/do-not-track/.

Please keep in mind that you will have to sepa­ra­tely deac­ti­vate Hotjar for every browser and every device.

For more detailed infor­ma­tion about Hotjar and the data to be recorded, please con­sult the Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion of Hotjar under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/.

Con­tract data pro­ces­sing

We have entered into a con­tract data pro­ces­sing agree­ment with Hotjar to imple­ment the strin­gent Euro­pean Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tions.

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 uses so-called coo­kies. Coo­kies are text files, which are stored on your com­puter and that enable an ana­lysis of the use of the web­site by users. The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by coo­kies on your use of this web­site is usually trans­ferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is stored.

The sto­rage of Google Ana­ly­tics coo­kies and the uti­liza­tion of this ana­lysis tool are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­rator of this web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the ana­lysis of user pat­terns to opti­mize both, the ser­vices offered online and the operator’s adver­ti­sing acti­vi­ties. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

IP anony­miza­tion

On this web­site, we have acti­vated the IP anony­miza­tion func­tion. 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 ana­lyse 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 do have the option to pre­vent the archi­ving of coo­kies by making per­ti­nent changes to the set­tings of your browser soft­ware. However, we have to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the func­tions of this web­site to their ful­lest extent. Moreover, you have the option pre­vent the recor­ding of the data gene­rated by the cookie and affi­liated with your use of the web­site (inclu­ding your IP address) by Google as well as the pro­ces­sing of this data by Google by down­loa­ding and instal­ling the browser plug-in available under the fol­lo­wing link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objec­tion to the recor­ding of data

You have the option to pre­vent the recor­ding of your data by Google Ana­ly­tics by cli­cking on the fol­lo­wing link. This will result in the pla­ce­ment of an opt out cookie, which pre­vents the recor­ding of your data during future visits to this web­site: Google Ana­ly­tics deac­ti­va­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion about the hand­ling of user data by Google Ana­ly­tics, please con­sult Google’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=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.

Demo­gra­phic para­me­ters pro­vided by Google Ana­ly­tics

This web­site uses the func­tion „demo­gra­phic para­me­ters“ pro­vided by Google Ana­ly­tics. It makes it pos­sible to gene­rate reports pro­vi­ding infor­ma­tion on the age, gender and inte­rests of web­site visi­tors. The sources of this infor­ma­tion are interest-related adver­ti­sing by Google as well as visitor data obtained from third party pro­vi­ders. This data cannot be allo­cated to a spe­cific indi­vi­dual. You have the option to deac­ti­vate this func­tion at any time by making per­ti­nent set­tings changes for adver­ti­sing in your Google account or you can gene­rally pro­hibit the recor­ding of your data by Google Ana­ly­tics as explained in sec­tion „Objec­tion to the recor­ding of data.“

Archi­ving period

Data on the user or inci­dent level stored by Google linked to coo­kies, user IDs or adver­ti­sing IDs (e.g. Dou­ble­Click coo­kies, Android adver­ti­sing ID) will be anony­mized or deleted after 14 month. For details please click the fol­lo­wing link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en

Google Ana­ly­tics Remar­ke­ting

Our web­sites use the func­tions of Google Ana­ly­tics Remar­ke­ting in com­bi­na­tion with the func­tions of Google AdWords and Google Dou­ble­Click, which work on all devices. The pro­vider of these solu­tions is Google Ire­land Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ire­land.

This func­tion makes it pos­sible to con­nect the adver­ti­sing target groups gene­rated with Google Ana­ly­tics Remar­ke­ting with the func­tions of Google AdWords and Google Dou­ble­Click, which work on all devices. This makes it pos­sible to dis­play interest-based cus­to­mized adver­ti­sing mes­sages, depen­ding on your prior usage and brow­sing pat­terns on a device (e.g. cell phone) in a manner tail­ored to you as well as on any of your devices (e.g. tablet or PC).

If you have given us per­ti­nent con­sent, Google will con­nect your web and app browser pro­gres­sions with your Google account for this pur­pose. As a result, it is pos­sible to dis­play the same per­so­na­lized adver­ti­sing mes­sages on every device you log into with your Google account.

To sup­port this func­tion, Google Ana­ly­tics records Google authen­ti­cated IDs of users that are tem­po­r­a­rily con­nected with our Google Ana­ly­tics data to define and com­pile the target groups for the ads to be dis­played on all devices.

You have the option to per­ma­nently object to remarketing/targeting across all devices by deac­ti­vating per­so­na­lized adver­ti­sing. To do this, please follow this link: https://adssettings.google.com/.

The con­so­li­da­tion of the recorded data in your Google account shall occur exclu­si­vely based on your con­sent, which you may give to Google and also revoke there (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). Data recor­ding pro­cesses that are not con­so­li­dated in your Google account (for ins­tance because you do not have a Google account or have objected to the con­so­li­da­tion of data), the recor­ding of data is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legi­ti­mate inte­rest arises from the fact that the ope­rator of the web­site has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the anony­mized ana­lysis of web­site visitor for adver­ti­sing pur­poses. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion and the per­ti­nent data pro­tec­tion regu­la­tions, please con­sult the Data Pri­vacy Poli­cies of Google at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.

Google AdSense

This web­site uses Google AdSense, a ser­vice for the inte­gra­tion of ads offered by Google Inc. (“Google”). The pro­vider of this ser­vice is Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Parkway, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. Google AdSense uses so-called “coo­kies”; i.e. text files that are stored on your com­puter and that make it pos­sible to ana­lyse your use of this web­site. Google AdSense also uses so-called Web Bea­cons (invi­sible gra­phics). These Web Bea­cons can be used to ana­lyse infor­ma­tion, such as visitor traffic data, on this web­site. The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by the coo­kies and the Web Bea­cons con­cer­ning the use of this web­site (inclu­ding your IP address) and the deli­very of adver­ti­sing for­mats are trans­ferred to a Google server in the United States, where they are archived. Google may share this infor­ma­tion with Google con­trac­ting part­ners. Google shall, however, not merge your IP address with any other of your data stored by Google. The sto­rage of the AdSense coo­kies is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. 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. You can pre­vent the instal­la­tion of these coo­kies by making a per­ti­nent adjus­t­ment to your browser soft­ware set­tings; however, we have to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the func­tions of this web­site to their ful­lest extent. By using this web­site, you declare your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of the data we collect about you by Google in the manner described above and agree to the afo­re­men­tioned pur­pose of use. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

Google AdWords and Google Con­ver­sion Tracking

This web­site uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online pro­mo­tional pro­gram of Google Ire­land Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ire­land.

In con­junc­tion with Google AdWords, we use a tool called Con­ver­sion Tracking. If you click on an ad posted by Google, a cookie for Con­ver­sion Tracking pur­poses will be placed. Coo­kies are small text files the web browser places on the user’s com­puter. These coo­kies expire after 30 days and are not used to per­so­nally iden­tify users. If the user visits cer­tain pages of this web­site and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and we will be able to reco­g­nise that the user has cli­cked on an ad and has been linked to this page.

A dif­fe­rent cookie is allo­cated to every Google AdWords cus­tomer. These coo­kies cannot be tra­cked via web­sites of AdWords cus­to­mers. The infor­ma­tion obtained with the assis­tance of the Con­ver­sion cookie is used to gene­rate Con­ver­sion sta­tis­tics for AdWords cus­to­mers who have opted to use Con­ver­sion Tracking. The users receive the total number of users that have cli­cked on their ads and have been linked to a page equipped with a Con­ver­sion Tracking tag. However, they do not receive any infor­ma­tion that would allow them to per­so­nally iden­tify these users. If you do not want to par­ti­ci­pate in tracking, you have the option to object to this use by easily deac­ti­vating the Google Con­ver­sion Tracking cookie via your web browser under user set­tings. If you do this, you will not be included in the Con­ver­sion Tracking sta­tis­tics.

The sto­rage of „Con­ver­sion“ coo­kies and the use of this tracking tool are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. 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. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

To review more detailed infor­ma­tion about Google AdWords and Google Con­ver­sion Tracking, please con­sult the Data Pri­vacy Poli­cies of Google at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

You can set up your browser in such a manner that you will be noti­fied any­time coo­kies are placed and you can permit coo­kies only in cer­tain cases or exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain ins­tances or in general and you can also acti­vate the auto­matic dele­tion of coo­kies upon clo­sing of the browser. If you deac­ti­vate coo­kies, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

IONOS Web­Ana­ly­tics

This web­site uses the ana­lysis ser­vices of IONOS Web­Ana­ly­tics (her­ein­after: IONOS). The pro­vider is 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgen­dorfer Straße 57, D – 56410 Mon­ta­baur. As part of the ana­lyzes with IONOS, e.g. Visitor num­bers and beha­vior (e.g. number of page views, dura­tion of a web­site visit, bounce rates), visitor sources (i.e. which web­site the visitor comes from), visitor loca­tions and tech­nical data (browser and ope­ra­ting system ver­sions) are ana­lyzed. For this pur­pose, IONOS stores the fol­lo­wing data in par­ti­cular:

• Referrer (pre­viously visited web­site)
• Requested web­site or file
• Browser type and browser ver­sion
• Ope­ra­ting system used
• Device type used
• Time of access
• IP address in anony­mous form (only used to deter­mine the loca­tion of access)
• Accor­ding to IONOS, data coll­ec­tion is com­ple­tely anony­mous so that it cannot be traced back to indi­vi­dual per­sons. Coo­kies are not stored by IONOS Web­Ana­ly­tics.

The data is stored and ana­lyzed on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The web­site ope­rator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the sta­tis­tical ana­lysis of user beha­vior in order to opti­mize both its web­site and its adver­ti­sing. If a cor­re­spon­ding con­sent has been requested, the pro­ces­sing takes place exclu­si­vely on the basis of Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR; con­sent can be revoked at any time.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on data coll­ec­tion and pro­ces­sing by IONOS Web­Ana­ly­tics can be found in the IONOS data pro­tec­tion decla­ra­tion under the fol­lo­wing link:

https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/datenschutzerklaerung/

Order pro­ces­sing

We have con­cluded an order pro­ces­sing con­tract with IONOS. This con­tract is intended to ensure that IONOS handles your per­sonal data in com­pli­ance with data pro­tec­tion regu­la­tions.

Word­Press Stats

This web­site uses the Word­Press tool Stats in order to sta­tis­ti­cally ana­lyse user access infor­ma­tion. The pro­vider of the solu­tion is Auto­mattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Fran­cisco, CA 94110-4929, USA.

Word­Press Stats uses coo­kies that are stored on your com­puter and that make it pos­sible to ana­lyse the use of this web­site. The infor­ma­tion gene­rated by the coo­kies con­cer­ning the use of our web­site is stored on ser­vers in the United States. Your IP address is ren­dered anony­mous after pro­ces­sing and prior to the sto­rage of the data. The sto­rage of „Word­Press Stats“ coo­kies and the use of this ana­lysis tool are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The web­site ope­rator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest in the anony­mous ana­lysis of user pat­terns, in order to opti­mize the operator’s web offe­rings and adver­ti­sing. Fur­ther­more, the ser­vices will only be actively loaded if you have pre­viously given your con­sent, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of revo­ca­tion, Article 7 GDPR, with effect for the future. The lawful­ness of pro­ces­sing based on con­sent until its revo­ca­tion remains unaf­fected.

You can set up your browser in such a manner that you will be noti­fied any­time coo­kies are placed and you can permit coo­kies only in cer­tain cases or exclude the accep­tance of coo­kies in cer­tain ins­tances or in general and you can also acti­vate the auto­matic dele­tion of coo­kies upon clo­sing of the browser. If you deac­ti­vate coo­kies, the func­tions of this web­site may be limited.

You do have the option to object to the coll­ec­tion and use of your data for future impli­ca­tions by pla­cing an opt out cookie into your browser by cli­cking on the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/. If you delete the coo­kies on your com­puter, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

Meta-Pixel (form­erly Face­book Pixel)

To mea­sure con­ver­sion rates, this web­site uses the visitor acti­vity pixel of Facebook/Meta. The pro­vider of this ser­vice is Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ire­land. Accor­ding to Facebook’s state­ment the coll­ected data will be trans­ferred to the USA and other third-party count­ries too.

This tool allows the tracking of page visi­tors after they have been linked to the web­site of the pro­vider after cli­cking on a Face­book ad. This makes it pos­sible to ana­lyze the effec­ti­ve­ness of Face­book ads for sta­tis­tical and market rese­arch pur­poses and to opti­mize future adver­ti­sing cam­paigns.

For us as the ope­ra­tors of this web­site, the coll­ected data is anony­mous. We are not in a posi­tion to arrive at any con­clu­sions as to the iden­tity of users. However, Face­book archives the infor­ma­tion and pro­cesses it, so that it is pos­sible to make a con­nec­tion to the respec­tive user pro­file and Face­book is in a posi­tion to use the data for its own pro­mo­tional pur­poses in com­pli­ance with the Face­book Data Usage Policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). This enables Face­book to dis­play ads on Face­book pages as well as in loca­tions out­side of Face­book. We as the ope­rator of this web­site have no con­trol over the use of such data.

The use of these ser­vices occurs on the basis of your con­sent pur­suant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 TDDDG. You may revoke your con­sent 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 DSGVO). The joint respon­si­bi­lity is limited exclu­si­vely to the coll­ec­tion of the data and its for­war­ding to Face­book. The pro­ces­sing by Face­book 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 tool and for the privacy-secure imple­men­ta­tion of the tool on our web­site. Face­book is respon­sible for the data secu­rity of Face­book pro­ducts. You can assert data sub­ject rights (e.g., requests for infor­ma­tion) regar­ding data pro­cessed by Face­book 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 and https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381.

In Facebook’s Data Pri­vacy Poli­cies, you will find addi­tional infor­ma­tion about the pro­tec­tion of your pri­vacy at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

You also have the option to deac­ti­vate the remar­ke­ting func­tion “Custom Audi­ences” in the ad set­tings sec­tion under https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. To do this, you first have to log into Face­book.

If you do not have a Face­book account, you can deac­ti­vate any user-based adver­ti­sing by Face­book on the web­site of the Euro­pean Inter­ac­tive Digital Adver­ti­sing Alli­ance: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/.

7. 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 Sect. 1 lit. 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 you archive with us for the pur­pose of the news­letter sub­scrip­tion shall be archived by us until you unsub­scribe from the news­letter. Once you cancel your sub­scrip­tion to the news­letter, the data shall be deleted. This shall not affect data we have been archi­ving for other pur­poses.

8. Custom Ser­vices

Job Appli­ca­tions

If you send us an appli­ca­tion, we will pro­cess the per­sonal data you pro­vide there in order to pro­cess your appli­ca­tion and to contact you. The per­sonal data con­cer­ning you will not be passed on to third par­ties wit­hout your express con­sent, unless we are legally obliged to do so, you have requested this or the data transfer is neces­sary to initiate and imple­ment a con­trac­tual rela­ti­onship with you or the appli­ca­tion pro­cess. The legal basis is Article 6 Para­graph 1 Sub­sec­tion 1 Letter a, b GDPR, Article 88 Para­graph 1 GDPR, Sec­tion 26 Para­graph 1 of the Federal Data Pro­tec­tion Act (BDSG).

We delete appli­ca­tions no later than three months after com­ple­tion of the appli­ca­tion pro­cess. If the data may be required for legal pro­se­cu­tion after the appli­ca­tion pro­cess has been com­pleted, data pro­ces­sing can take place on the basis of the requi­re­ments of Article 6 GDPR, in par­ti­cular to safe­guard legi­ti­mate inte­rests in accordance with Article 6 para­graph 1 sub­pa­ra­graph 1 letter f GDPR. Our legi­ti­mate inte­rest then con­sists in the asser­tion or defense of claims.

If your appli­ca­tion is suc­cessful, we will con­tinue to pro­cess your per­sonal data for the pur­poses of the employ­ment rela­ti­onship.

If you have expressly given your con­sent, you can revoke your decla­ra­tion of con­sent at any time with effect for the future, so that we delete your data.

Scope and pur­pose of the coll­ec­tion of data

If you submit a job appli­ca­tion to us, we will pro­cess any affi­liated per­sonal data (e.g. contact and com­mu­ni­ca­tions data, appli­ca­tion docu­ments, notes taken during job inter­views, etc.), if they are required to make a decision con­cer­ning the estab­lish­ment or an employ­ment rela­ti­onship. The legal grounds for the afo­re­men­tioned are § 26 New GDPR accor­ding to German Law (Nego­tia­tion of an Employ­ment Rela­ti­onship), Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR (General Con­tract Nego­tia­tions) and – pro­vided you have given us your con­sent – Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR. You may revoke any con­sent given at any time. Within our com­pany, your per­sonal data will only be shared with indi­vi­duals who are involved in the pro­ces­sing of your job appli­ca­tion.

If your job appli­ca­tion should result in your recruit­ment, the data you have sub­mitted will be archived on the grounds of § 26 New GDPR and Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR for the pur­pose of imple­men­ting the employ­ment rela­ti­onship in our data pro­ces­sing system.

Data Archi­ving Period

Saved server log files and IP addresses are deleted after seven days at the latest.

Ses­sion coo­kies are auto­ma­ti­cally deleted after the ses­sion has ended. Other coo­kies are stored on your end device and you have con­trol over the use and dele­tion of coo­kies, see above.

We pro­cess your data from your inqui­ries via e-mail or via the contact form until your inquiry has been fully pro­cessed and settled. After that, the infor­ma­tion will be deleted. Please note, however, that due to a legal tran­sac­tion with you, com­mer­cial and tax law sto­rage obli­ga­tions of at least six (§ 257 HGB) or ten (§ 147 AO) years may exist for cer­tain data, which also apply to the con­tent of contact requests and e-mails can, see above.

If you apply via e-mail, for example, we will delete your trans­mitted per­sonal data and appli­ca­tions three months after the appli­ca­tion pro­cess has been com­pleted. If your appli­ca­tion is suc­cessful, we will con­tinue to pro­cess your per­sonal data for the pur­poses of the employ­ment rela­ti­onship. If you have expressly given your con­sent, you can revoke your decla­ra­tion of con­sent at any time with effect for the future, so that we delete your data, see above.

In addi­tion, an annual check is car­ried out to deter­mine whe­ther data can be deleted. This is the case if the pur­pose of the pro­ces­sing and the requi­re­ments of the legal basis for the pro­ces­sing no longer apply and there is no legal obli­ga­tion to store it.

9. Online mar­ke­ting and affi­liate pro­grams

Amazon partner pro­gramme

The ope­ra­tors of this web­site par­ti­ci­pate in the Amazon EU part­ners’ pro­gramme. Amazon inte­grates ads and links to the German Amazon web­site –  Amazon.de – into our web­site, which allows us to gene­rate ear­nings in the form of adver­ti­sing cost reim­bur­se­ments. Amazon uses coo­kies for this pro­gramme to be able to deter­mine the source of orders placed. This allows Amazon to deter­mine that you have cli­cked the partner link on our web­site.

The archi­ving of „Amazon coo­kies“ is based on Art. 6 lit. f GDPR. Based on the afo­re­men­tioned regu­la­tion, the web­site ope­rator has a legi­ti­mate inte­rest to do this since the deter­mi­na­tion of the web­site operator’s affi­liate ear­nings is con­tin­gent upon the pla­ce­ment of coo­kies.

For more infor­ma­tion on Amazon’s data usage, please con­sult Amazon’s Data Pri­vacy Decla­ra­tion under the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_privacy?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468496.

10. Pay­ment ser­vice pro­vi­ders and resel­lers

PayPal

Among other options, we offer pay­ment via PayPal on our web­site. The pro­vider of this pay­ment pro­ces­sing ser­vice is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Bou­le­vard Royal, L-2449 Luxem­bourg (her­ein­after referred to as „PayPal“).

If you choose pay­ment via PayPal, we will share the pay­ment infor­ma­tion you enter with PayPal. The legal basis for the sha­ring of your data with PayPal is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR (con­sent) as well as Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR (pro­ces­sing for the ful­filment of a con­tract). You have the option to at any time revoke your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of your data. Such a revo­ca­tion shall not have any impact on the effec­ti­ve­ness of data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions that occurred in the past.

Klarna

Among other options, we offer pay­ment through the ser­vices of Klarna on our web­site. The pro­vider is Klarna AB, Svea­vägen 46, 111 34 Stock­holm, Sweden (her­ein­after referred to as „Klarna“).

Klarna offers a wide spec­trum of pay­ment options (e.g. pay­ment by inst­al­ment). If you should decide to pay through Klarna (Klarna checkout solu­tion), Klarna will collect per­sonal data from you. For spe­ci­fics, please review Klarna’s Data Pro­tec­tion Decla­ra­tion by fol­lo­wing this link: https://www.klarna.com/us/privacy-policy.

Klarna uses coo­kies to opti­mise the use of Klarna checkout solu­tions. The opti­mi­sa­tion of the checkout solu­tion con­sti­tutes a legi­ti­mate inte­rest as defined in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. Coo­kies are small text files that can be stored on your device and that do not cause any damage to your device. The infor­ma­tion stays on your device until you delete it. For details con­cer­ning the use of Klarna coo­kies, please follow this link: https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/cookie/de_de/checkout.pdf.

The legal basis for the sha­ring of your data with PayPal is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR (con­sent) as well as Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR (pro­ces­sing for the ful­filment of a con­tract). You have the option to at any time revoke your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of your data. Such a revo­ca­tion shall not have any impact on the effec­ti­ve­ness of data pro­ces­sing tran­sac­tions that occurred in the past.

Stripe

On our web­site we offer, among other things, pay­ment via Stripe and the asso­ciated pay­ment methods. is the pro­vider of these pay­ment ser­vices, Stripe Pay­ments Europe Ltd, Block 4, Har­court Centre, Har­court Rd, Dublin 2.

If you choose to pay via Stripe, the pay­ment details you enter will be trans­mitted to Stripe. Your data will be trans­mitted to Stripe on the basis of Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR (con­sent) and Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR (pro­ces­sing to ful­fill a con­tract). You have the option to revoke your con­sent to data pro­ces­sing at any time. A revo­ca­tion does not affect the effec­ti­ve­ness of past data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­tions. All data required for pay­ment pro­ces­sing is used exclu­si­vely for making pay­ments and is trans­mitted via the “SSL” pro­ce­dure. Stripe is PCI DSS cer­ti­fied. Stripe may transfer, pro­cess and store per­sonal data out­side the EU. Stripe is sub­ject to the Safe Harbor Agree­ment. Infor­ma­tion about Stripe’s data pro­tec­tion is available here: https://stripe.com/de/privacy.

11. Our social media appearances

Data pro­ces­sing through social net­works

We main­tain publicly available pro­files in social net­works. The indi­vi­dual social net­works we use can be found below.

Social net­works such as Face­book, Google+ etc. can gene­rally ana­lyse your user beha­viour com­pre­hen­si­vely if you visit their web­site or a web­site with inte­grated social media con­tent (e.g. like but­tons or banner ads). When you visit our social media pages, num­e­rous data protection-relevant pro­ces­sing ope­ra­tions are trig­gered. In detail:

If you are logged in to your social media account and visit our social media page, the ope­rator of the social media portal can assign this visit to your user account. Under cer­tain cir­cum­s­tances, your per­sonal data may also be recorded if you are not logged in or do not have an account with the respec­tive social media portal. In this case, this data is coll­ected, for example, via coo­kies stored on your device or by recor­ding your IP address.

Using the data coll­ected in this way, the ope­ra­tors of the social media por­tals can create user pro­files in which their pre­fe­rences and inte­rests are stored. This way you can see interest-based adver­ti­sing inside and out­side of your social media pre­sence. If you have an account with the social net­work, interest-based adver­ti­sing can be dis­played on any device you are logged in to or have logged in to.

Please also note that we cannot retrace all pro­ces­sing ope­ra­tions on the social media por­tals. Depen­ding on the pro­vider, addi­tional pro­ces­sing ope­ra­tions may the­r­e­fore be car­ried out by the ope­ra­tors of the social media por­tals. Details can be found in the terms of use and pri­vacy policy of the respec­tive social media por­tals.

Legal basis
Our social media appearances should ensure the widest pos­sible pre­sence on the Internet. This is a legi­ti­mate inte­rest within the mea­ning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The ana­lysis pro­cesses initiated by the social net­works may be based on diver­gent legal bases to be spe­ci­fied by the ope­ra­tors of the social net­works (e.g. con­sent within the mea­ning of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR).

Respon­si­bi­lity and asser­tion of rights
If you visit one of our social media sites (e.g., Face­book), we, tog­e­ther with the ope­rator of the social media plat­form, are respon­sible for the data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­tions trig­gered during this visit. You can in prin­ciple pro­tect your rights (infor­ma­tion, cor­rec­tion, dele­tion, limi­ta­tion of pro­ces­sing, data por­ta­bi­lity and com­plaint) vis-à-vis us as well as vis-à-vis the ope­rator of the respec­tive social media portal (e.g. Face­book).

Please note that despite the shared respon­si­bi­lity with the social media portal ope­ra­tors, we do not have full influence on the data pro­ces­sing ope­ra­tions of the social media por­tals. Our options are deter­mined by the com­pany policy of the respec­tive pro­vider.

Sto­rage time
The data coll­ected directly from us via the social media pre­sence will be deleted from our sys­tems as soon as the pur­pose for their sto­rage lapses, you ask us to delete it, you revoke your con­sent to the sto­rage or the pur­pose for the data sto­rage lapses. Stored coo­kies remain on your device until you delete them. Man­da­tory sta­tu­tory pro­vi­sions – in par­ti­cular, reten­tion periods – remain unaf­fected.

We have no con­trol over the sto­rage dura­tion of your data that are stored by the social net­work ope­ra­tors for their own pur­poses. For details, please contact the social net­work ope­ra­tors directly (e.g. in their pri­vacy policy, see below).

Indi­vi­dual social net­works

Face­book

We have a pro­file on Face­book. The pro­vider is Face­book Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, Cali­fornia 94025, USA. Face­book is cer­ti­fied under the EU-US Pri­vacy Shield.

You can cus­to­mise your adver­ti­sing set­tings inde­pendently in your user account. Click on the fol­lo­wing link and log in: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

Details can be found in the Face­book pri­vacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

Face­book Fan­page Insights – Notice for our Face­book Fan­page users

Face­book Ire­land Ltd (“Face­book”) pro­vides us as a Face­book fan page ope­rator with so-called “Face­book Insights” (“Insights”). The insights are various sta­tis­tics that give us infor­ma­tion about the use of our Face­book fan page. Detailed infor­ma­tion on this and which data pro­ces­sing takes place can be found at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ as well https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data

Facebook-Fanpage-Insights can be based on per­sonal data that was recorded in con­nec­tion with a visit or an inter­ac­tion of people on or with our Face­book fan page and its con­tent, so that per­sonal data can also be pro­cessed by Face­book, visit our Face­book site. The essen­tial infor­ma­tion of the agree­ment con­cluded bet­ween us and Face­book within the mea­ning of Article 26 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion can be found there: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

Facebook-Fanpage Insights are jointly respon­sible for the pro­ces­sing

Face­book Ire­land Ltd.
4 Grand Canal Square
Grand Canal Har­bour
Dublin 2, Ire­land
https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

and

E-Mail: info@az-maschinenwelt.com

Face­book Ire­land pri­ma­rily ful­fills:

• the infor­ma­tion obli­ga­tions from Articles 12, 13 GDPR, as well
• the obli­ga­tions from Articles 15 to 21 GDPR, the rights of the data sub­ject can the­r­e­fore be asserted against Face­book Ire­land, as well
• the obli­ga­tions under Articles 33 and 34 GDPR.

Of course, you can also assert your rights against us.

Face­book Ire­land takes appro­priate tech­nical and orga­niza­tional mea­sures in accordance with Article 32 GDPR to ensure the secu­rity of pro­ces­sing through Face­book Fan­page Insights.

For the legal basis and pur­poses of pro­ces­sing by Face­book Ire­land, please refer to the infor­ma­tion there: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/legal_bases and https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

We pro­cess the Face­book Fan­page Insights data based on our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in eva­lua­ting the acti­vi­ties on our fan­page and our mar­ke­ting mea­sures there (adver­ti­se­ments, cam­paigns, pos­tings); Article 6 para­graph 1 sen­tence 1 f) GDPR.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion: Data pro­tec­tion: Face­book Fan­pages and InSights – here are the ans­wers

You are not legally obliged to pro­vide your per­sonal data. However, the pro­vi­sion may be neces­sary for a con­tract or for func­tions of the Face­book fan page. If not pro­vided, a con­tract or a func­tion on the Face­book fan page may not be offered.

The rights of data sub­jects arise in par­ti­cular from Articles 15 to 23 and 77 of the General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion and from Sec­tions 32 to 37 of the Federal Data Pro­tec­tion Act.

With regard to your per­sonal data, you have the right to

• Infor­ma­tion, Article 15 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion
• Cor­rec­tion, Article 16 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion
• Dele­tion, Article 17 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion
• Rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing, Article 18 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion and
• Trans­fera­bi­lity, Article 20 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion.

You also have the right to object to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data

• Objec­tion, Article 21 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion

to be coll­ected, see fur­ther infor­ma­tion sepa­ra­tely imme­dia­tely.

If you have given your con­sent to the pro­ces­sing of per­sonal data, you have the right of

• Revo­ca­tion, Article 7 General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion

with effect for the future.

Please direct all inqui­ries, requests and noti­fi­ca­tions to Face­book Ire­land or to us, see above-

If you believe that the pro­ces­sing of your per­sonal data vio­lates data pro­tec­tion law, you always have that

• Right to com­plain

at the respon­sible super­vi­sory aut­ho­rity, cf. Article 77 General data pro­tec­tion regu­la­tion. Wit­hout pre­ju­dice to any other admi­nis­tra­tive or judi­cial remedy, you have the right to lodge a com­plaint with a super­vi­sory aut­ho­rity, in par­ti­cular in the member state of your resi­dence, your place of work or the place of the alleged inf­rin­ge­ment, if you believe that the pro­ces­sing of your per­sonal data vio­lates the General data pro­tec­tion regu­la­tion vio­lates. The super­vi­sory aut­ho­rity respon­sible for Face­book Ire­land is the Irish Data Pro­tec­tion Com­mis­sion (https://www.dataprotection.ie/). The State Com­mis­sioner for Data Pro­tec­tion and Freedom of Infor­ma­tion North Rhine-Westphalia is respon­sible for us, Kaval­le­rie­strasse 2-4, 40213 Düs­sel­dorf.

INFOR­MA­TION ABOUT YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT UNDER ARTICLE 21 GDPR

1. You have the right to object to the pro­ces­sing of your per­sonal data at any time, for reasons that arise from your par­ti­cular situa­tion, based on Article 6 para­graph 1 sen­tence 1 f) General Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion (data pro­ces­sing based on a balance of inte­rests).

If you file an objec­tion, we will no longer pro­cess your per­sonal data unless we can demons­trate com­pel­ling legi­ti­mate reasons for the pro­ces­sing that out­weigh your inte­rests, rights and free­doms, or the pro­ces­sing serves to assert, exer­cise or defend legal claims.

2. In indi­vi­dual cases, we pro­cess per­sonal data in order to ope­rate direct mail. If this is the case for you, you have the right to object at any time to the pro­ces­sing of your data for the pur­pose of such adver­ti­sing

If you object to pro­ces­sing for direct mar­ke­ting pur­poses, we will no longer pro­cess your per­sonal data for these pur­poses.

The objec­tion can be made wit­hout a form.

Google+

We have a pro­file on Google+. The pro­vider is Google Ire­land Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ire­land. Google has EU-US Pri­vacy Shield cer­ti­fi­ca­tion:

You can cus­to­mise your adver­ti­sing set­tings inde­pendently in your user account. Click on the fol­lo­wing link and log in: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

For details, see the Google Pri­vacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Twitter / X

We use the short mes­sage ser­vice Twitter / X. The pro­vider is Twitter Inter­na­tional Unli­mited Com­pany, One Cum­ber­land Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ire­land. Twitter / X is cer­ti­fied under the EU-US Pri­vacy Shield.

You can cus­to­mise your Twitter / X pri­vacy set­tings in your user account. Click on the fol­lo­wing link and log in: https://x.com/settings/account/personalization.

For details, see the Twitter / X Pri­vacy Policy: https://x.com/de/privacy.

Insta­gram

We have a pro­file on Insta­gram. The pro­vider is Insta­gram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. For details on how they handle your per­sonal infor­ma­tion, see the Insta­gram Pri­vacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.

Pin­te­rest

We have a pro­file at Pin­te­rest. The ope­rator is Pin­te­rest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Fran­cisco, CA 94103-490, USA („Pin­te­rest“). Details on how they handle your per­sonal data can be found in the pri­vacy policy of Pin­te­rest: https://policy.pinterest.com/de/privacy-policy.

XING

We have a pro­file on XING. The pro­vider is XING AG, Damm­tor­straße 29-32, 20354 Ham­burg, Ger­many. Details on their hand­ling of your per­sonal data can be found in the XING Pri­vacy Policy: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung.

Lin­kedIn

We have a Lin­kedIn pro­file. The pro­vider is the Lin­kedIn Ire­land Unli­mited Com­pany, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ire­land. Lin­kedIn is cer­ti­fied under the EU-US Pri­vacy Shield. Lin­kedIn uses adver­ti­sing coo­kies.

If you want to disable Lin­kedIn adver­ti­sing coo­kies, please use the fol­lo­wing link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.

For details on how they handle your per­sonal infor­ma­tion, please refer to LinkedIn’s pri­vacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Tumblr

We have a pro­file on Tumblr. The pro­vider is Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St., 10th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA. Details on how they handle your per­sonal data can be found in the Tumblr pri­vacy policy: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/de.