Data protection
Introduction
With the following data protection declaration we would like to inform you about which types of your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as "data") we process, for what purposes and to what extent. The data protection declaration applies to all processing of personal data carried out by us, both within the framework of the provision of our services and in particular on our websites, in mobile applications and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as “online offering”).
The terms used are not gender specific.
As of: January 19, 2022
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Responsible person
- Overview of processing
- Relevant legal bases
- Safety measures
- Transfer of personal data
- Data processing in third countries
- Deletion of data
- Use of cookies
- Business benefits
- Payment procedure
- Provision of online offerings and web hosting
- Contact and inquiry management
- Advertising communication via email, post, fax or telephone
- Presences in social networks (social media)
- Plugins and embedded functions and content
- Changes and updates to the data protection declaration
- Rights of data subjects
- Definitions of terms
Responsible person
John Fiedler
Memeler Str. 5
25335 Elmshorn
Persons authorized to represent:
John Fiedler
E-mail address:
Overview of processing
The following overview summarizes the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing and refers to the data subjects.
Types of data processed
- Inventory data.
- Payment details.
- Contact details.
- Content data.
- Contract data.
- Usage Data.
- Meta/communication data.
Special Categories of Data
- Health data.
Categories of data subjects
- Customers.
- Interested persons.
- Communication partner.
- User.
- Business and contractual partners.
Purposes of processing
- Provision of contractual services and customer service.
- Contact inquiries and communication.
- Direct marketing.
- Office and organizational procedures.
- Managing and responding to inquiries.
- Feedback.
- Marketing.
- Provision of our online offering and user-friendliness.
Relevant legal bases
Below you will find an overview of the legal basis of the GDPR on the basis of which we process personal data. Please note that in addition to the regulations of the GDPR, national data protection regulations may apply in your or our country of residence or domicile. If more specific legal bases apply in individual cases, we will inform you of these in the data protection declaration.
- Consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a. GDPR) - The data subject has given his or her consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her for a specific purpose or several specific purposes.
- Fulfillment of a contract and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b. GDPR) - Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or to carry out pre-contractual measures at the request of the data subject take place.
- Legal obligation (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c. GDPR) - Processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
- Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f. GDPR) - Processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are infringing on the protection of personal data Data requirements predominate.
In addition to the data protection regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation, national data protection regulations apply in Germany. This includes in particular the law to protect against misuse of personal data during data processing (Federal Data Protection Act – BDSG). In particular, the BDSG contains special regulations on the right to information, the right to deletion, the right to object, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes and transmission and automated decision-making in individual cases, including profiling. Furthermore, it regulates data processing for the purposes of the employment relationship (Section 26 BDSG), in particular with regard to the establishment, implementation or termination of employment relationships and the consent of employees. Furthermore, state data protection laws of the individual federal states may apply.
Safety measures
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the type, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing as well as the different probabilities of occurrence and the extent of the threat to the rights and freedoms of natural persons to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.
The measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data as well as the access, input, disclosure, ensuring availability and its separation. We have also set up procedures to ensure that the rights of those affected are exercised, data are deleted and responses are made to data threats. We also take the protection of personal data into account when developing or selecting hardware, software and procedures in accordance with the principle of data protection, through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings.
Transfer of personal data
As part of our processing of personal data, the data may be transmitted to or disclosed to other bodies, companies, legally independent organizational units or persons. The recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers commissioned with IT tasks or providers of services and content that are integrated into a website. In such cases, we observe the legal requirements and, in particular, conclude appropriate contracts or agreements with the recipients of your data that serve to protect your data.
Data processing in third countries
If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA)) or the processing in the context of using third-party services or disclosing or transferring data to other people, bodies or companies takes place, this only takes place in accordance with the legal requirements.
Subject to express consent or contractually or legally required transfer, we only process or have the data processed in third countries with a recognized level of data protection, contractual obligations through so-called standard protection clauses of the EU Commission, if certifications or binding internal data protection regulations exist (Articles 44 to 49 GDPR, EU Commission information page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_de ).
Deletion of data
Use of cookies
- Temporary cookies (also: session or session cookies): Temporary cookies are deleted at the latest after a user has left an online offer and closed their device (e.g. browser or mobile application).
- Permanent cookies: Permanent cookies remain stored even after the device is closed. For example, the login status can be saved or preferred content can be displayed directly when the user visits a website again. User data collected using cookies can also be used to measure reach. Unless we provide users with explicit information about the type and storage period of cookies (e.g. when obtaining consent), users should assume that cookies are permanent and that the storage period can be up to two years.
Further information on processing processes, procedures and services:
Business benefits
- Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses); Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices, payment history); Contact details (e.g. email, telephone numbers); Contract data (e.g. subject matter of the contract, term, customer category).
- Special categories of personal data: Health data (Art. 9 Para. 1 GDPR).
- Affected persons: interested parties; Business and contractual partners.
- Purposes of processing: provision of contractual services and customer service; Contact inquiries and communication; office and organizational procedures; Managing and responding to inquiries.
- Legal basis: fulfillment of contract and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b. GDPR); Legal obligation (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c. GDPR); Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. GDPR).
Payment procedure
- Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses); Payment data (e.g. bank details, invoices, payment history); Contract data (e.g. subject matter of the contract, term, customer category); Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times); Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
- Data subjects: customers; Interested persons.
- Purposes of processing: provision of contractual services and customer service.
- Legal basis: fulfillment of contract and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b. GDPR); Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. GDPR).
Further information on processing processes, procedures and services:
- PayPal: payment processing services (e.g. PayPal, PayPal Plus, Braintree); Service provider: PayPal (Europe) S.à rl et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg; Website: https://www.paypal.com/de ; Data protection: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full .
Provision of online offerings and web hosting
- Types of data processed: Content data (e.g. entries in online forms); Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times); Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
- Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
- Purposes of processing: Provision of our online offering and user-friendliness; Provision of contractual services and customer service.
- Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f. GDPR).
Further information on processing processes, procedures and services:
- Collection of access data and log files: We ourselves (or our web hosting provider) collect data about every access to the server (so-called server log files). The server log files include the address and name of the websites and files accessed, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page) and, as a rule, IP address. Addresses and the requesting provider belong. The server log files can be used on the one hand for security purposes, for example to avoid overloading the servers (particularly in the case of abusive attacks, so-called DDoS attacks) and on the other hand to ensure the utilization of the servers and their stability; Deletion of data: Log file information is stored for a maximum of 30 days and then deleted or anonymized. Data whose further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes is excluded from deletion until the respective incident has been finally clarified.
- IONOS by 1&1: Hosting platform for e-commerce / websites; Service provider: 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany; Website:
- https://www.ionos.de
- ; Data protection:
- https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy
- ; Order processing contract:
- https://www.ionos.de/hilfe/datenschutz/generale-information-zur-datenschutz-grundverfassung-dsgvo/vertragsprocessing/?utm_source=search&utm_medium=global&utm_term=Auft&utm_campaign=HELP_CENTER&utm_content=/hilfe/
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Contact and inquiry management
- Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses); Contact details (e.g. email, telephone numbers); Content data (e.g. entries in online forms).
- Affected persons: communication partners.
- Purposes of processing: contact requests and communication; Provision of contractual services and customer service.
- Legal basis: fulfillment of contract and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. b. GDPR); Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. GDPR); Legal obligation (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c. GDPR).
- Contact form: If users contact us via our contact form, email or other communication channels, we process the data provided to us in this context to process the request communicated. For this purpose, we process personal data within the framework of pre-contractual and contractual business relationships, to the extent that this is necessary for their fulfillment and otherwise on the basis of our legitimate interests and the interests of the communication partners in answering the concerns and our legal retention obligations.
Advertising communication via email, post, fax or telephone
- Types of data processed: inventory data (e.g. names, addresses); Contact details (e.g. email, telephone numbers).
- Affected persons: communication partners.
- Purposes of processing: Direct marketing (e.g. via email or post).
- Legal basis: consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a. GDPR); Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. GDPR).
Presences in social networks (social media)
- Types of data processed: Contact details (e.g. email, telephone numbers); Content data (e.g. entries in online forms); Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times); Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
- Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
- Purposes of processing: contact requests and communication; Feedback (e.g. collecting feedback via online form); Marketing.
- Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f. GDPR).
- Instagram: social network; Service provider: Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA; Website:
- https://www.instagram.com
- ; Data protection:
- https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy
- .
Plugins and embedded functions and content
- Types of data processed: Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times); Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
- Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
- Purposes of processing: Provision of our online offering and user-friendliness; Provision of contractual services and customer service.
- Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f. GDPR).
- Google Maps: We integrate the maps from the “Google Maps” service provided by Google. The data processed may include, in particular, IP addresses and location data of users, which, however, are not collected without their consent (usually carried out as part of the settings of their mobile devices); Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; Website:
- https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform
- ; Data protection:
- https://policies.google.com/privacy
- ; Option to object (opt-out): Opt-out plugin:
- https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
- , Settings for displaying advertisements:
- https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
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Changes and updates to the data protection declaration
Rights of data subjects
- Right to object: You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data, which is carried out on the basis of Article 6 (1) (e) or (f) of the GDPR; This also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If your personal data is processed for the purpose of direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising; This also applies to profiling insofar as it is connected to such direct advertising.
- Right to revoke consent: You have the right to revoke your consent at any time.
- Right to information: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data in question is being processed and to receive information about this data as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with legal requirements.
- Right to rectification: In accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to request that the data concerning you be completed or that incorrect data concerning you be corrected.
- Right to deletion and restriction of processing: In accordance with the legal requirements, you have the right to demand that data concerning you be deleted immediately or, alternatively, to request a restriction on the processing of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to receive data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format in accordance with legal requirements or to request that it be transmitted to another person responsible.
- Complaint to a supervisory authority: 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 habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of your data concerns you personal data violates the requirements of the GDPR.
Definitions of terms
- Personal data: “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); A natural person is considered identifiable if he or she can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookie) or one or more special features, which are an expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
- Controller: The “controller” is the natural or legal person, authority, institution or other body that alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.
- Processing: “Processing” means any operation or series of operations carried out on personal data, whether or not by automated means. The term is wide-ranging and includes practically every handling of data, be it collecting, evaluating, storing, transmitting or deleting.