Data protection

Data protection

1. Overview

 
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.
We use cook­ies to enhance the user expe­ri­ence and ana­lyze site usage. You can man­age your cook­ie pref­er­ences through our con­sent man­age­ment tool when you vis­it our site. Ana­lyt­ics tools, such as Google Ana­lyt­ics, and third-par­ty ser­vices will only be enabled with your explic­it con­sent, in accor­dance with GDPR (Arti­cle 6(1)(a)).
 
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.
 

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 this web­site.

The pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data via third-par­ty ser­vices (like Google Ana­lyt­ics or LinkedIn) can be jus­ti­fied based on the legit­i­mate inter­est of improv­ing ser­vices (Arti­cle 6(1)(f) GDPR), but only with explic­it user con­sent (Arti­cle 6(1)(a) GDPR), which must be obtained before pro­cess­ing begins.

Third-par­ty tools like LinkedIn and YouTube is restrict­ed based on the user’s con­sent.
 
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. 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 this 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.
 
Addi­tion­al GDPR Rights (Data Trans­fers Out­side EU)
Giv­en the inclu­sion of ser­vices like Google, LinkedIn, and YouTube, which may trans­fer data out­side the EU, the pol­i­cy should clar­i­fy data trans­fer safe­guards, espe­cial­ly since the EU-U.S. Pri­va­cy Shield was inval­i­dat­ed in 2020.
 
Some of the third-par­ty ser­vices used on our web­site may trans­fer per­son­al data to coun­tries out­side the Euro­pean Union (e.g., the Unit­ed States). We ensure that any such trans­fers com­ply with applic­a­ble data pro­tec­tion laws, such as by rely­ing on the Euro­pean Commission’s Stan­dard Con­trac­tu­al Claus­es (SCCs) or oth­er legal­ly accept­ed mech­a­nisms.”
 
 

2. Hosting

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 DSGVO) and in the inter­est of secure, fast and effi­cient pro­vi­sion of our online ser­vices by a pro­fes­sion­al provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).
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.
 

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.
 
Use of Cook­ies and Con­sent
We use cook­ies to enhance the user expe­ri­ence and ana­lyze site usage. You can man­age your cook­ie pref­er­ences through our con­sent man­age­ment tool when you vis­it our site. Ana­lyt­ics tools, such as Google Ana­lyt­ics, and third-par­ty ser­vices will only be enabled with your explic­it con­sent, in accor­dance with GDPR (Arti­cle 6(1)(a)).
 

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 per­son­al data pro­cess­ing con­troller on this web­site is: 
Stephen B. Har­ri­son, Geschäfts­führer sbh4 GmbH, Kran­zl­straße 21, 82538 Geretsried, Deutsch­land
Phone: +49 (0) 8171 24 64 954, E-Mail: info@sbh4.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.).
 
Des­ig­na­tion of a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer as man­dat­ed by law.
We have appoint­ed a data pro­tec­tion offi­cer for our com­pa­ny:
Stephen B. Har­ri­son, Geschäfts­führer sbh4 GmbH, Kran­zl­straße 21, 82538 Geretsried, Deutsch­land
Phone: +49 (0) 8171 24 64 954, E-Mail: info@sbh4.de
 
If you believe that the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data infringes data pro­tec­tion laws, you have the right to lodge a com­plaint with the rel­e­vant data pro­tec­tion author­i­ty. In Ger­many, this is the Bavar­i­an Data Pro­tec­tion Author­i­ty (BayL­DA).
 
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

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.
 

5. Social media

LinkedIn plug-in

This web­site uses func­tions of the LinkedIn net­work. The provider is LinkedIn Cor­po­ra­tion, 2029 Stier­lin Court, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA.
 
Any time you access a page of this web­site that con­tains func­tions of LinkedIn, a con­nec­tion to LinkedIn’s servers is estab­lished. LinkedIn is noti­fied that you have vis­it­ed this web­site 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 this 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.
 
For fur­ther infor­ma­tion on this sub­ject, please con­sult LinkedIn’s Data Pri­va­cy Dec­la­ra­tion at:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
 

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.
 
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
 
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
 
1&1 Web Ana­lyt­ics


This web­site uses 1&1-Webanalytics analy­sis ser­vices. The provider of these ser­vices is 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgen­dor­fer Straße 57, 56410 Montabaur, Ger­many. In con­junc­tion with the per­for­mance of analy­ses by 1&1, it is pos­si­ble to e.g. ana­lyze the num­ber of vis­i­tors and their behav­ior pat­terns dur­ing vis­its (e.g. num­ber of pages accessed, dura­tion of their vis­its to the web­site, per­cent­age of abort­ed vis­its), vis­i­tor ori­gins (i.e. from which site does the vis­i­tor arrive at our site), vis­i­tor loca­tions as well as tech­ni­cal data (brows­er and ses­sion of oper­at­ing sys­tem used). For these pur­pos­es, 1&1 archives in par­tic­u­lar the fol­low­ing data:

  • Refer­rer (pre­vi­ous­ly vis­it­ed web­site)
  • Accessed page on the web­site or file
  • Brows­er type and brows­er ver­sion
  • Used oper­at­ing sys­tem
  • Type of device used
  • Web­site access time
  • Anonymized IP address (used only to deter­mine the access loca­tion)
 
Accord­ing to 1&1, the data record­ed are com­plete­ly anonymized so they can­not be tracked back to indi­vid­u­als. 1&1-Webanalytics does not archive cook­ies. The data are stored and ana­lyzed pur­suant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The oper­a­tor of the web­site has a legit­i­mate inter­est in the sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis of user pat­terns to opti­mize both, the operator’s web pre­sen­ta­tion as well as the operator’s pro­mo­tion­al 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. For more infor­ma­tion affil­i­at­ed with the record­ing and pro­cess­ing of data by 1&1-Webanalytics, please click on the fol­low­ing links:
https://hosting.1und1.de/hilfe/online-marketing/
https://hosting.1und1.de/hilfe/datenschutz/datenverarbeitung-von-webseitenbesuchern-ihres-companyname-produktes/webanalytics/
https://hosting.1und1.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy/
 

7. Plug-ins and Tools

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.
 
We use Google Maps to present our online con­tent in an appeal­ing man­ner and to make the loca­tions dis­closed on our web­site easy to find. This con­sti­tutes a legit­i­mate inter­est as defined in Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f 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
 
Use of YouTube Videos


Our web­site inte­grates videos from YouTube, a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google LLC, 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA. When you vis­it a page with embed­ded YouTube con­tent, a con­nec­tion to YouTube’s servers is estab­lished. This may involve the trans­mis­sion of data to YouTube, includ­ing which of our pages you have vis­it­ed.

If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can direct­ly asso­ciate your brows­ing behav­ior with your per­son­al pro­file. You can pre­vent this by log­ging out of your YouTube account.
 
We use YouTube in enhanced pri­va­cy mode. This mode pre­vents YouTube from stor­ing infor­ma­tion about vis­i­tors to our web­site unless they play the video. How­ev­er, once you start the video, YouTube may store cook­ies on your device or col­lect data for ana­lyt­ics pur­pos­es. We have no con­trol over this data col­lec­tion. For more infor­ma­tion on how YouTube process­es your data, please refer to YouTube’s Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
 
Com­pli­anz Plu­g­in for Con­sent Man­age­ment

To com­ply with data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions, we use the Com­pli­anz plu­g­in for con­sent man­age­ment. This plu­g­in allows us to obtain and doc­u­ment your con­sent to the pro­cess­ing of per­son­al data, espe­cial­ly in rela­tion to third-par­ty ser­vices such as YouTube. When you first vis­it our web­site, you will be asked to con­sent to the use of cook­ies and exter­nal ser­vices. Com­pli­anz man­ages these con­sent pref­er­ences and ensures that no data is trans­ferred to third par­ties (e.g., YouTube) with­out your explic­it con­sent.
You can adjust your con­sent pref­er­ences at any time through the cook­ie set­tings avail­able on our web­site. For fur­ther details on how Com­pli­anz han­dles data, please refer to their pri­va­cy pol­i­cy: https://complianz.io/legal/privacy-statement/.
 

8. 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:
 
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