Privacy Statement
The person responsible within the meaning of the data protection laws, in particular the EU data protection basic regulation (GDPR), is:
Toby D. Couture
Blücherstraße 55
10961 Berlin
Germany
Your rights of data subjects
You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided by our data protection officer:
- Information about your data stored with us and their processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
- Correction of incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
- Deletion of your data stored with us (Art. 17 GDPR),
- Restriction of data processing if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
- Objection to the processing of your data by us (Art. 21 GDPR) and
- Data transferability if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).
If you have given us your consent, you can revoke it at any time.
You may at any time file a complaint with a supervisory authority, e.g. the competent supervisory authority of the federal state in which you reside or the authority responsible for us.
A list of the supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) in Germany with their addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html
Collection of general information when you visit our website
The nature and purpose of the processing:
If you access our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise submit information, information of a general nature is automatically collected. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address and the like.
In particular, your data are processed strictly for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a trouble-free connection to the website,
- Ensuring the smooth use of our website,
- Evaluation of system safety and stability as well as
- for other administrative purposes.
We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind is evaluated statistically by us if necessary, in order to optimize our Internet appearance and the technology behind it.
Legal basis:
Processing takes place in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 of the EU’s GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.
Recipient:
Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as contract processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.
Storage period:
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose of collection. This is generally the case for the data used to provide the website when the respective session has ended.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither required by law nor by contract. Without the IP address, however, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, individual services may not be available or restricted. For this reason an objection is excluded.
Newsletter
The nature and purpose of the processing:
Your data will only be used to send you the subscribed newsletter by e-mail. Your name will be entered in order to address you personally in the newsletter and, if necessary, to identify you if you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject.
Your e-mail address is sufficient for receiving the newsletter. When you register to receive our newsletter, the data you provide will be used exclusively for this purpose. Subscribers may also be informed by e-mail of circumstances relevant to the service or registration (e.g. changes to the newsletter offering or technical circumstances).
For an effective registration we need a valid e-mail address. In order to check that a registration is actually carried out by the owner of an e-mail address, we use the “double opt-in” procedure. To this end, we log the order of the newsletter, the sending of a confirmation e-mail and the receipt of the reply requested herewith. Further data will not be collected. The data will be used exclusively for the newsletter dispatch and will not be passed on to third parties.
Legal basis:
On the basis of your expressly given consent (Art. 6 para. 1 of the EU’s GDPR), we regularly send you our newsletter or comparable information by e-mail to your specified e-mail address.
You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for newsletter dispatch at any time with effect for the future. In every newsletter you will find a corresponding link. You can also unsubscribe directly from this website at any time or inform us of your cancellation via the contact option given at the end of this data protection notice.
Recipient:
The recipients of the data may be contract processors:
Mailchimp
Storage period:
The data will only be processed in this context as long as the corresponding consent is available. They will then be deleted.
Provision prescribed or required:
The provision of your personal data is voluntary, solely on the basis of your consent. Unfortunately, we cannot send you our newsletter without your consent.
Use of YouTube videos
This website uses the YouTube embedding feature to view and play videos from “YouTube”, a provider owned by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
The extended data protection mode is used here, which, according to the provider, only triggers the storage of user information when the video(s) is/are played. If embedded YouTube video playback is started, “YouTube” uses cookies to collect information about user behaviour. According to information from “YouTube”, these cookies serve amongst other things to collect video statistics, improve user friendliness and prevent abusive practices. When you are logged into Google, your data is assigned directly to your account if you click on a video. You should therefore log out before activating the button if you do not wish to be associated with your YouTube profile. Google stores your data (even for users who are not logged in) as usage profiles and analyses them. In accordance with Sec. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, this analysis is based on the legitimate interests of Google in displaying personalised advertising, market research and/or the bespoke design of its website. You have a right object to the creation of these user profiles, and should contact YouTube to exercise your right if you wish to do so.
Regardless of whether you playback an embedded video, every time you visit our website it connects to the Google “DoubleClick” network, which may trigger further data processing without us having any influence over it.
US-based Google LLC is certified under the US Privacy Shield, which ensures compliance with the level of data protection that applies in the EU.
You can find further information on privacy at “YouTube” in the provider’s Privacy Policy under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en
SSL Encryption
In order to protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption procedures (e.g. SSL) via HTTPS.
Contract processors used
The following organisations, companies or persons have been commissioned by the operator of this website to process data:
DomainFactory GmbH
Oskar-Messter-Str. 33
85737 Ismaning
Germany
Changes to our privacy policy
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration so that it always corresponds to the current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the data protection declaration, e.g. when introducing new services. Your renewed visit will then be subject to the new data protection declaration.
Questions to the data protection officer
If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization directly: