Pri­va­cy Policy

1. An over­view of da­ta protection

Ge­ne­ral information

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

Da­ta re­cord­ing on this website

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

The da­ta on this web­site is pro­ces­sed by the ope­ra­tor of the web­site, who­se con­ta­ct in­for­ma­ti­on is avail­ab­le un­der sec­tion “In­for­ma­ti­on 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.

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

What are the pur­po­ses we use your da­ta for?

A por­ti­on of the in­for­ma­ti­on is ge­ne­ra­ted to gua­ran­tee the er­ror free pro­vi­si­on of the web­site. Other da­ta may be used to 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 or era­di­ca­ted. If you have con­sen­ted to da­ta pro­ces­sing, you have the op­ti­on to re­vo­ke this con­sent at any time, which shall af­fect all fu­ture da­ta pro­ces­sing. Mo­reo­ver, you have the right to de­mand that the pro­ces­sing of your da­ta be restric­ted un­der cer­tain cir­cum­s­tan­ces. Fur­ther­mo­re, you have the right to log a com­p­laint with the com­pe­tent su­per­vi­sing agency.

Plea­se do not he­si­ta­te to con­ta­ct us at any time 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.

Ana­ly­sis tools and tools pro­vi­ded by third parties

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

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

2. Hos­ting and Con­tent De­li­very Net­works (CDN)

Ex­ter­nal Hosting

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

The host is used for the pur­po­se of ful­fil­ling the con­tract with our po­ten­ti­al and exis­ting cus­to­mers (Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the in­te­rest of se­cu­re, fast and ef­fi­ci­ent pro­vi­si­on of our on­line ser­vices by a pro­fes­sio­nal pro­vi­der (Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. f GDPR).

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

Exe­cu­ti­on of a con­tract da­ta pro­ces­sing agreement

In or­der to gua­ran­tee pro­ces­sing in com­pli­an­ce with da­ta pro­tec­tion re­gu­la­ti­ons, we have con­clu­ded an or­der pro­ces­sing con­tract with our host.

3. Ge­ne­ral in­for­ma­ti­on and man­da­to­ry information

Da­ta protection

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

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

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

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

The da­ta pro­ces­sing con­trol­ler on this web­site is:

Zahn­arzt Dr. med. dent. Du­san Barac
Leo­polds­weg 2
D‑61348 Bad Hom­burg vor der Höhe

Pho­ne: +49 (0)6172 / 29 589
E‑mail: praxis@dent-smile-bad-homburg.de

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

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.

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.

In­for­ma­ti­on about, 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 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.

4. Re­cord­ing of da­ta on this website

Coo­kies

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

In so­me ca­ses it is pos­si­ble that third par­ty coo­kies are stored on your de­vice on­ce you en­ter our site (third par­ty coo­kies). The­se coo­kies en­ab­le you or us to ta­ke ad­van­ta­ge of cer­tain ser­vices of­fe­red by the third par­ty (e.g. coo­kies for the pro­ces­sing of pay­ment services).

Coo­kies have a va­rie­ty of func­tions. Ma­ny coo­kies are tech­ni­cal­ly es­sen­ti­al sin­ce cer­tain web­site func­tions would not work in the ab­sence of the coo­kies (e.g. the shop­ping cart func­tion or the dis­play of vi­de­os). The pur­po­se of other coo­kies may be the ana­ly­sis of user pat­terns or the dis­play of pro­mo­tio­nal messages.

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

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

In the event that third par­ty coo­kies are used or if coo­kies are used for ana­ly­ti­cal pur­po­ses, we will se­pa­r­ate­ly no­ti­fy you in con­junc­tion with this Da­ta Pro­tec­tion Po­li­cy and, if ap­p­li­ca­ble, ask for your consent.

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

The pro­ces­sing of the­se da­ta is ba­sed on Art. 6 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 our le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest in the ef­fec­ti­ve pro­ces­sing of the re­quests ad­dres­sed to us (Art. 6 Pa­ra. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your agree­ment (Art. 6 Pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR) if this has be­en requested.

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

Re­quest by e‑mail, te­le­pho­ne or fax

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

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

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

5. So­cial media

Face­book plug-ins (Li­ke & Share button)

We have in­te­gra­ted plug-ins of the so­cial net­work Face­book on this web­site. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Face­book 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.

You will be ab­le to re­co­gni­se Face­book plug-ins by the Face­book lo­go or the “Li­ke” but­ton on this web­site. An over­view of the Face­book plug-ins is avail­ab­le un­der the fol­lowing link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

Whenever you vi­sit this 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 this 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 this web­site and its pa­ges with your Face­book pro­fi­le. As a re­sult, Face­book will be ab­le to al­lo­ca­te the vi­sit to this 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 this web­site and its pa­ges to your Face­book user ac­count, plea­se log out of your Face­book ac­count while you are on this 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. If a re­spec­ti­ve de­cla­ra­ti­on of con­sent has be­en ob­tai­ned, the da­ta shall be pro­ces­sed ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR. This de­cla­ra­ti­on of con­sent may be re­vo­ked at any time.

In­sta­gram plug-in

We have in­te­gra­ted func­tions of the pu­blic me­dia plat­form In­sta­gram in­to this 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 this web­site to your In­sta­gram pro­fi­le. This en­ab­les In­sta­gram to al­lo­ca­te your vi­sit to this web­site to your user ac­count. We have to point out that we as the pro­vi­der of the web­site and its pa­ges do not have any know­ledge of the con­tent of the da­ta trans­fer­red and its use by Instagram.

Da­ta are stored and ana­ly­zed on the ba­sis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The web­site ope­ra­tor has a le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest in the hig­hest pos­si­ble vi­si­bi­li­ty on so­cial me­dia. If a re­spec­ti­ve de­cla­ra­ti­on of con­sent has be­en ob­tai­ned, the da­ta will be pro­ces­sed ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a DGDPR. Any such con­sent may be re­vo­ked at any time.

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

6. Ana­ly­sis tools and advertising

Goog­le Analytics

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

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics 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. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has be­en re­ques­ted (e.g. an agree­ment to the sto­rage of coo­kies), the pro­ces­sing ta­kes place ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be re­vo­ked at any time.

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

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 this 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 this 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 this 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. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has be­en re­ques­ted (e.g. an agree­ment to the sto­rage of coo­kies), the pro­ces­sing ta­kes place ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be re­vo­ked at any time.

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/opt-out.

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/privacy.

Con­tract da­ta processing

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

„Wor­d­Press Stats” coo­kies will re­main on your de­vice un­til you de­le­te them.

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. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has be­en re­ques­ted (e.g. an agree­ment to the sto­rage of coo­kies), the pro­ces­sing ta­kes place ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be re­vo­ked at any time.

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.

Goog­le Ana­ly­tics Remarketing

This web­site uses the func­tions of Goog­le Ana­ly­tics Re­mar­ke­ting in com­bi­na­ti­on with the func­tions of Goog­le Ads 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 Ads 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://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.

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.

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 Ads and Goog­le Con­ver­si­on Tracking

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

In con­junc­tion with Goog­le Ads, 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 Ads cus­to­mer. The­se coo­kies can­not be tra­cked via web­sites of Goog­le Ads cus­to­mers. The in­for­ma­ti­on ob­tai­ned with the as­si­s­tance of the Con­ver­si­on coo­kie is used to ge­ne­ra­te Con­ver­si­on sta­tis­tics for Goog­le Ads 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. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has be­en re­ques­ted (e.g. an agree­ment to the sto­rage of coo­kies), the pro­ces­sing ta­kes place ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be re­vo­ked at any time.

To re­view mo­re de­tail­ed in­for­ma­ti­on about Goog­le Ads 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.

Face­book Pixel

To mea­su­re con­ver­si­on ra­tes, this web­site uses the vi­si­tor ac­ti­vi­ty pi­xel of Face­book. The pro­vi­der of this ser­vice is Face­book 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 ana­ly­se 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. 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 Face­book Pi­xel is ba­sed on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The ope­ra­tor of the web­site has a le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest in ef­fec­ti­ve ad­ver­ti­sing cam­pai­gns, which al­so in­clu­de so­cial me­dia. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has be­en re­ques­ted (e.g. an agree­ment to the sto­rage of coo­kies), the pro­ces­sing ta­kes place ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be re­vo­ked at any time.

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. Plug-ins and Tools

You­Tube with ex­pan­ded da­ta pro­tec­tion integration

Our web­site em­beds vi­de­os of the web­site You­Tube. The web­site ope­ra­tor is 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 this 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’s vi­si­tors. 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 ba­sed on our in­te­rest in pre­sen­ting our on­line con­tent in an ap­pe­aling man­ner. Pur­suant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, this is a le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rest. If a cor­re­spon­ding agree­ment has be­en re­ques­ted, the pro­ces­sing ta­kes place ex­clu­si­ve­ly on the ba­sis of Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agree­ment can be re­vo­ked at any time.

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

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.

For mo­re in­for­ma­ti­on on Goog­le Web Fonts, plea­se fol­low this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and con­sult Google’s Da­ta Pri­va­cy De­cla­ra­ti­on un­der: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

8. eCom­mer­ce and pay­ment ser­vice providers

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 this 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.

9. Cus­tom Services

Job Ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons

We of­fer web­site vi­si­tors the op­por­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit job ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons to us (e.g. via e‑mail, via pos­tal ser­vices on by sub­mit­ting the on­line job ap­p­li­ca­ti­on form). Be­low, we will brief you on the scope, pur­po­se and use of the per­so­nal da­ta collec­ted from you in con­junc­tion with the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on pro­cess. We as­su­re you that the collec­tion, pro­ces­sing and use of your da­ta will oc­cur in com­pli­an­ce with the ap­p­li­ca­ble da­ta pri­va­cy rights and all other sta­tu­to­ry pro­vi­si­ons and that your da­ta will al­ways be trea­ted as strict­ly confidential. 

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

If we are un­ab­le to make you a job of­fer or you re­ject a job of­fer or wi­th­draw your ap­p­li­ca­ti­on, we re­ser­ve the right to re­tain the da­ta you have sub­mit­ted on the ba­sis of our le­gi­ti­ma­te in­te­rests (Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. f GDPR) for up to 6 mon­ths from the end of the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on pro­ce­du­re (re­jec­tion or wi­th­dra­wal of the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on). Af­ter­wards the da­ta will be de­le­ted, and the phy­si­cal ap­p­li­ca­ti­on do­cu­ments will be de­s­troy­ed. The sto­rage ser­ves in par­ti­cu­lar as evi­dence in the event of a le­gal dis­pu­te. If it is evi­dent that the da­ta will be re­qui­red af­ter the ex­pi­ry of the 6‑month pe­ri­od (e.g. due to an im­pen­ding or pen­ding le­gal dis­pu­te), de­le­ti­on will on­ly ta­ke place when the pur­po­se for fur­ther sto­rage no lon­ger applies.

Lon­ger sto­rage may al­so ta­ke place if you have gi­ven your agree­ment (Ar­ti­cle 6 (1) (a) GDPR) or if sta­tu­to­ry da­ta re­ten­ti­on re­qui­re­ments pre­clu­de the deletion.

Ad­mis­si­on to the ap­p­li­cant pool

If we do not make you a job of­fer, you may be ab­le to join our ap­p­li­cant pool. In ca­se of ad­mis­si­on, all do­cu­ments and in­for­ma­ti­on from the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on will be trans­fer­red to the ap­p­li­cant pool in or­der to con­ta­ct you in ca­se of sui­ta­ble vacancies.

Ad­mis­si­on to the ap­p­li­cant pool is ba­sed ex­clu­si­ve­ly on your ex­press agree­ment (Art. 6 pa­ra. 1 lit. a GDPR). The sub­mis­si­on agree­ment is vol­un­ta­ry and has no re­la­ti­on to the on­go­ing ap­p­li­ca­ti­on pro­ce­du­re. The af­fec­ted per­son can re­vo­ke his agree­ment at any time. In this ca­se, the da­ta from the ap­p­li­cant pool will be ir­re­vo­ca­b­ly de­le­ted, pro­vi­ded the­re are no le­gal re­a­sons for storage.

The da­ta from the ap­p­li­cant pool will be ir­re­vo­ca­b­ly de­le­ted no la­ter than two ye­ars af­ter con­sent has be­en granted.