PRIVACY POLICY
1. Data protection at a glance
general information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens with your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that enables you to be personally identified. You can obtain detailed data protection information from the Privacy Policy detailed below.
Data collection on this website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The website operator processes data on this website. You can obtain contact details from the “Information about the Data Controller” section in this Privacy Policy.
How do we collect your data?
On the one hand, your data is collected by you disclosing it to us. For example, it can involve data that you enter in a Contact Form.
Other data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when you visit this website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of page view). This data is collected automatically as soon as you access our website.
For what purposes do we use your data?
A portion of the data is collected in order to guarantee zero-error provision of the website. Other data may be utilised to analyse your user behaviour.
What rights do you have as far as your data is concerned?
You have the right to obtain free information at any time about the origins and recipients of any personal data of yours that we store and about the purpose for which it is used. You also have the right to require this data to be corrected or deleted. If you have provided your consent to having your data processed, you can revoke this consent at any time in the future. You also have the right to request a restriction on the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the regulator responsible. You can contact us at any time about this issue, and if you have any other questions on the subject of data protection. datenschutz@tomami.eu
Analysis and third-party tools
Your browsing behaviour may be statistically analysed when you visit this website. This is undertaken primarily with the aid of so-called analysis programmes.
You can obtain detailed information about these analysis programmes from the Privacy Policy below.
2. Hosting
External Hosting
This website is hosted by an external service provider (web host). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host’s servers. This may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, meta- and communication data, contractual data, contact details, names, website visits and other data that is website-generated.
The web host is employed for the purposes of contract performance vis-à-vis our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interests of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offering by a professional provider (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR).
Our web host will only process your data to the extent required by its contractual performance obligations and will follow our instructions with regard to this data.
We use the following web host:
WallCloud GmbH
Königsteiner Strasse 29
61381 Friedrichsdorf, Germany
3. general and mandatory information
Data protection
The operator of this website takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with statutory data protection regulations and this Privacy Policy. A range of your personal data is collected when you use this website. Personal data is any data that enables you to be personally identified. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect and to what use we put it. It also explains how and for what purpose that happens.
We should like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. in email communication) may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Full protection of data against access by third parties is not feasible.
information about the data controller
The data controller for this website is:
TOMAMI GmbH
Frankfurter Straße 18a
61462 Königstein
Germany
CEO: Georg Breuer
Phone: +49 (0) 6174 9980230
Email: info@tomami.eu
The data controller is the natural person or legal entity that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar), solely or jointly with others.
retention periods
Unless a more specific retention period has been stated in this Privacy Policy, we shall retain your personal data until the purpose of processing your data no longer applies. If you make a legitimate request to have your data deleted or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legal reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods specified by taxation or commercial law); in the latter case, the data will be deleted once these reasons cease to apply.
general information about the legal basis for data processing on this website
If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR and Art. 9 Par. 2 lit. a GDPR, if special categories of data are processed in accordance with Art. 9 Par. 1 GDPR. In the event of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data is also processed based on Art. 49 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR. If you have consented to the storage of cookies or access to information on your terminal device (e.g. via device fingerprinting), data is also processed based on § 25 Par. 1 TTDSG (German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act). This consent can be revoked at any time. If your data is required for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of precontractual arrangements, we process your data based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR. Furthermore, if your data is required for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, we process that data based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. c GDPR. Data can also be processed based on our legitimate interest as per Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. Information about the relevant legal basis in each case is provided in the following sections of this Privacy Policy.
information about data transfer to the usa and other third countries
We also use tools from companies based in the USA or in other non-secure (in data protection law terms) third countries. If these tools are activated, your personal data may be transferred to these third countries and processed there. We would like to point out that no level of data protection comparable to that in the EU can be guaranteed in these countries. For example, US companies are required to hand over personal data to the security authorities, without you as a data subject being able to take any legal action in this regard. Therefore, the possibility that US authorities (e.g. intelligence services) process, analyse and permanently store any personal data of yours saved on US servers for surveillance purposes cannot be ruled out. We have no influence on these processing activities.
revoking your consent to data processing
A wide range of data processing operations are contingent on you providing your explicit consent. You can revoke any consent already provided at any time. The legality of any data processing undertaken up until your revocation of consent remains unaffected by the revocation itself.
right to object to data collection in specific cases and to direct marketing (Art. 21 GDPR)
IF DATA PROCESSING IS UNDERTAKEN BASED ON ART. 6 PAR. 1 LIT. E OR F GDPR, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RELEVANT LEGAL FOUNDATION ON WHICH DATA PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO LODGE AN OBJECTION, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA, UNLESS WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE REASONS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR THAT PROCESSING SERVES THE PURPOSE OF ASSERTING, EXERCISING OR DEFENDING LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PAR. 1 GDPR).
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSES OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH MARKETING; THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PROFILING, TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS RELATED TO SUCH DIRECT MARKETING. IF YOU LODGE AN OBJECTION, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL THEN NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF DIRECT MARKETING (OBJECTION PURSUANT TO ART. 21 PAR. 2 GDPR).
RIGHT OF COMPLAINT to the regulatory authority responsible
In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to complain to a regulatory authority, in particular in the Member State in which they are habitually resident, in which their place of work is located or in which the place of the alleged breach is located. This right of complaint exists irrespective of any other administrative or judicial remedy.
RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY
You have the right to have any data that we process based on your consent or to perform a contract using automated means surrendered to you or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the data to be transferred directly to another controller, this will only be undertaken if technically feasible.
SSL and/or TLS encryption
This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to safeguard the transfer of confidential content, such as purchase orders or enquiries that you send to us in our capacity as the website operator. You can identify an encrypted link, if your browser’s address line switches from “http://” to “https://” and there is a padlock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you send us cannot be read by third parties.
information, deletion and correction
In line with the legal provisions currently in force, you have the right at any time to receive free information about any personal data of yours that we store, its origin(s), recipient(s) and the purpose of processing such data, and if necessary, a right to have that data corrected or deleted. Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you have any questions about this or other questions about personal data.
Right to restrict data processing
You have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. To do so, you can contact us at any time. The right to have data processing restricted applies in the following cases.
If you dispute the accuracy of the personal data of yours that we store, we usually need time to check this. You have the right to request a restriction be put on the processing of your personal data during this review period.
If the processing of your personal data occurred/occurs unlawfully, you can request that data processing be restricted instead of having the data deleted.
If we no longer require your personal data, but you need it for the purposes of exercising, defending or asserting legal claims, you have the right to request that processing of your personal data be restricted instead of the data being deleted. If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Par. 1 GDPR, a weighing up of your and our interests must be undertaken. As long as the issue of which interests take precedence has not yet been determined, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
If you have requested that the processing of your personal data be restricted, this data – apart from its storage – may only be processed with your consent, or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or to protect the rights of another natural person or legal entity or for reasons of vital public interest to the European Union or to a Member State.
objection to advertising emails
We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of our site notice obligation for the purposes of sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operator of this website explicitly reserves the right to take legal action, if unsolicited advertising information is sent to it, for example in spam emails.
4. Data collection on this Website
Cookies
Our website uses so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that do not cause any damage to your terminal device. They are stored on your terminal device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit to this website. Permanent cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.
In some cases, cookies from third-party companies (third-party cookies) may also be stored on your terminal device when you access our website. These cookies enable us or you to use certain services provided by that third-party company (e.g. cookies for handling payment transactions).
Cookies have a range of functions. Plenty of cookies are a technical necessity, as certain website functions would not work without them (e.g. the shopping cart function or displaying videos). Other cookies are used to analyse user behaviour or to display advertising.
Cookies, which are required for electronic communication purposes, to provide certain functions that you require (e.g. the shopping cart function) or to enhance the website (e.g. cookies to measure web audience size), i.e. essential cookies, are stored on the basis of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR, unless another legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing essential cookies to ensure zero-error, enhanced provision of its services. If your consent to the storage of cookies and comparable recognition technologies has been requested, processing is undertaken solely on the basis of this consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Par. 1 TTDSG [German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act]); you may revoke your consent at any time.
You can configure your browser to alert you whenever cookies are about to be stored on your terminal device and to permit cookies on a case-by-case basis only, to pre-empt acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally, as well as to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. Deactivating cookies may impair the functionality of this website.
If cookies from third-party companies or for analysis purposes are used, we shall inform you separately about this as part of this Privacy Policy, and request your consent, if necessary.
contact form
If you send us enquiries using the Contact Form, we store your details, including the contact details that you have provided, for the purposes of responding to your enquiry and if we have any follow-up questions. We do not disclose this data without your consent.
This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your enquiry is related to performance of a contract or the data is required to implement any precontractual arrangements. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in responding efficiently to all enquiries sent to us (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR), if this has been requested; you may revoke your consent at any time.
We will retain the data that you enter in the Contact Form until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to its storage or once the purpose of storing that data no longer applies (e.g. once your enquiry has been responded to). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
enquiries by EMail, phone or fax
If you contact us by email, phone or fax, your enquiry, including all the personal data derived from it (name, enquiry) will be stored by us for the purposes of responding to your enquiry and processed. We do not disclose this data without your consent.
Processing of this data is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR, if your enquiry is related to the performance of a contract or the data is required to meet any precontractual requirements. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in responding efficiently to all enquiries sent to us (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR), if this has been requested; you may revoke your consent at any time.
We will retain the data that you send to us as part of your enquiry until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to its storage or once the purpose of storing that data no longer applies (e.g. once your enquiry has been responded to). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
comment function on this Website
When you use the Comment function on this website, your comment, the time when you posted it, your email address and, if you have not posted anonymously, your chosen user name are stored.
Storing ip addresses
Our Comment function stores the IP addresses of users who post comments. As we do not check comments on this website before they are released online, we require this data in order to take legal action against the author in the event of a breach of the law, e.g. defamation or propaganda.
comments storage period
Comments and associated data are stored and remain on this website until the annotated content has been completely deleted or the comments have to be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. defamatory comments).
legal basis
Comments are stored on the basis of you providing consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time. All you need to do is to email us a non-formal notification. The legality of any data processing already undertaken remains unaffected by the revocation itself.
5. Social Media
Facebook social media plugins have been incorporated into this website. The provider of this service is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland. However, Facebook states that the data collected is also transferred to the USA and other third countries.
You can find an overview of Facebook social media plugins here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_DE.
When the social media plugin is activated, a direct link is established between your terminal device and the Facebook server. Facebook is therefore notified that you have visited this website using your IP address. When you click on the Facebook “Like” button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of this website to your Facebook profile.
This enables Facebook to match your visit to this website to your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of this website, have no knowledge of the content of any transmitted data or of its use by Facebook. You can obtain further information about this from Facebook’s Privacy Policy at:
https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
If your consent has been obtained, the use of the a.m. service is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time. If no consent has been obtained, use of the service is based on our legitimate interest in achieving maximum possible social media visibility.
If personal data is collected on our website with the aid of the tool described here and forwarded to Facebook, we and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland are jointly responsible for this data processing (Art. 26 GDPR). This joint responsibility is limited solely to collecting the data and forwarding it to Facebook. Any processing by Facebook after the data has been forwarded does not form part of this joint responsibility. The joint obligations incumbent on both parties have been set out in a joint processing agreement. You can find the text of the agreement at:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. According to this agreement, we are responsible for providing the data protection information related to using the Facebook tool and for running the tool on our website in a manner that complies with data protection law. Facebook is responsible for the data security of Facebook products. You can approach Facebook directly, if you wish to assert your data subject rights (e.g. requests for information) relating to data processed by Facebook. If you approach us to assert your data subject rights, we are obliged to forward them to Facebook.
Data transfer to the USA is based on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. You can obtain details here:
https://www.facebook.com/legal/EU_data_transfer_addendum,
https://de-de.facebook.com/help/566994660333381 and
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
6. Newsletter
Newsletter data
If you would like to receive the Newsletter offered on our website, we require your email address as well as information that enables us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided and that you consent to receiving the Newsletter. We do not collect further data or only do so on a voluntary basis. We use this data solely for the purposes of sending the requested information and do not disclose it to third parties.
The data entered in the Newsletter registration form is processed solely on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR). You may revoke your consent to storage of this data, your email address and their use for the purposes of sending the Newsletter at any time, for instance, via the “Unsubscribe” link in the Newsletter. The legality of any data processing already undertaken remains unaffected by the revocation itself.
The data that you provide for the purposes of receiving our Newsletter is stored by us at our newsletter service provider (MailChimp) until you unsubscribe from the Newsletter, and is deleted from the Newsletter distribution list after you have unsubscribed or once the intended purpose of the data no longer applies. We reserve the right to delete or ban email addresses from our Newsletter distribution list at our discretion as part of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Data that we have stored for other purposes remains unaffected by this.
After you have unsubscribed from the Newsletter distribution list, your email address may be stored on a blacklist at our Newsletter service provider (MailChimp), if this is required to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist is used solely for this purpose and is not merged with other data. This serves both your and our interests in complying with the legal requirements for sending out newsletters (legitimate interest as per Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR). Storage of data on the blacklist is not time-limited. You may object to storage of your data on the blacklist, if your interests outweigh our legitimate interest.
MailChimp
This website employs the services of MailChimp to send out newsletters. The provider is Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.
MailChimp is a service, the uses of which include organising and analysing the sending of newsletters. If you enter data for the purposes of receiving our Newsletter (e.g. your email address), this data is stored on MailChimp’s servers in the USA.
MailChimp is certified in line with the “EU-US Privacy Shield”. The “Privacy Shield” is an agreement between the European Union (EU) and the USA, which is intended to ensure compliance in the USA with European data protection standards.
We can analyse our newsletter campaigns with the aid of MailChimp. If you open an email sent using MailChimp, a file contained in the email (so-called web beacon) connects with MailChimp’s servers in the USA. This makes it possible to determine whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links, if any, have been clicked. Technical information (e.g. time of retrieval, IP address, browser type and operating system) is also recorded. This information cannot be matched to the newsletter recipient concerned. It is used solely for the statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses may be used to match future newsletters to the interests of recipients.
If you do not wish to be involved in any MailChimp analysis, you must unsubscribe from the Newsletter. We provide a link in every Newsletter message to enable you to do so. Furthermore, you can also unsubscribe directly on our website.
The data is processed based on your consent (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time by unsubscribing from the Newsletter. The legality of any data processing already undertaken remains unaffected by the revocation itself.
The data that you provide for the purposes of receiving our Newsletter will be stored by us, until you unsubscribe from the Newsletter and will be deleted from our and MailChimp’s servers, once you have unsubscribed. Any data stored by us for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the Members’ section) remain unaffected when you unsubscribe.
For more details, please refer to MailChimp’s Privacy Policy at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/.
7. Plugins and Tools
Polylang
Provider: WP SYNTEX
Purpose: saves the current language
Privacy Policy
Jetpack
Provider: Automattic
Purpose: malware scans and spam protection for WordPress
Privacy Policy
FacetWP
Provider: FacetWP, LLC
Purpose: filter functionality for recipes
Privacy Policy
Shariff Wrapper
Provider: Jan-Peter Lambeck & 3UU
Purpose: GDPR-compliant Share buttons
PlugIn Information
Yoast SEO
Provider: Yoast BV,
Purpose: Yoast SEO ensures that our website meets the highest technical SEO standards. It provides tools to optimise our content for SEO and general readability purposes.
Privacy Policy
Borlabs Cache
Provider: Borlabs GmbH
Purpose: rolls the website out as a cached file and therefore speeds up page loading.
PlugIn Information
Redirection
Provider: John Godley
Purpose: management of 301 redirection and 404 error pages.
PlugIn Information
Monotype (Fonts.com)
For uniform display of fonts, this website uses so-called web fonts provided by Monotype (Fonts.com), 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801, USA. These are fonts that are loaded into your browser when you access our website, in order to ensure a uniform typeface when the website is displayed. The fonts are loaded for this purpose via an external CSS file. To check that the font(s) are licenced, hits on our website may be communicated to Fonts.com’s webservers.
The use of fonts is based on our legitimate interest in a uniform presentation of our website (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR).
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Fonts is a service that provides access to a font library for use on websites. These are fonts that are loaded into your browser when you access our website, in order to ensure a uniform typeface when the website is displayed. The fonts are loaded for this purpose via an external CSS file.
The privacy policy relating to the use of Adobe Fonts can be obtained from the following website: https://www.adobe.com/de/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html
The use of fonts is based on our legitimate interest in a uniform presentation of our website (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR).
YouTube with enhanced Privacy
This website incorporates YouTube videos. The operator of YouTube is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
We use YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode. According to YouTube, this mode means that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to this website, before they watch a particular video. However, privacy-enahnced mode does not necessarily prevent the disclosure of data to YouTube partners. YouTube – irrespective of whether you watch a video or not – thus establishes a link to the Google DoubleClick network.
As soon as you start a YouTube video on this website, a link to YouTube’s servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our sites you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to match your browsing behaviour directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
Furthermore, YouTube may store various cookies or comparable recognition technologies (e.g. device fingerprinting) on your terminal device after you have started watching a video. This allows YouTube to receive information about visitors to this website. Uses of this information include collecting video statistics, enhancing user experience and preventing fraud attempts.
Further data processing operations, over which we have no control, may possibly be triggered after a YouTube video has been started.
YouTube is used in the interests of presenting our online offering in an appealing way. This represents a legitimate interest as per Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. If the relevant consent has been requested, data is processed solely on the basis of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 Par. 1 TTDSG, if that consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information on the user’s terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) as per TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.
For more information about privacy at YouTube, please refer to its privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
8. ANALYSis TOOLS aND advertising
Google Analytics
This website utilises functions provided by web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable your use of this website to be analysed. The information about your use of this website generated by the cookie is usually transferred to and stored on a Google server located in the USA.
Storage of Google Analytics cookies is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour for the purposes of enhancing both its web offering and advertising.
IP anonymisation
We have activated the IP anonymisation function on this website. This means that your IP address is abridged by Google prior to transmission to the USA; however this only applies in countries that are members of the European Union or the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abridged locally. Google will use this information for the purposes of evaluating your use of the website, as well as compiling reports on website activity on behalf of and providing other services related to website activity and Internet usage to the operator of this website. Google will not combine your IP address, which is communicated by your browser when Google Analytics is used, with any other personal data of yours that it holds.
Browser plugin
You can prevent the installation of cookies by activating the relevant setting in your browser software; however, we would like to point out that, if you do so, you may then not be able to make full use of all the functions on this website. Furthermore, you can prevent collection of cookie-generated, website use-related data (incl. your IP address) and its transfer to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Opting out of data collection
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics, by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie, which prevents future collection of your data when you visit this website, is then set: Deactivate Google Analytics.
You can obtain further information about how Google Analytics handles user data from Google’s Privacy Policy:https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
Contract data processing
We have concluded a data processing contract with Google and comply in full with the strict guidelines that apply to the use of Google Analytics put in place by the German data protection authorities.
Demographic features at Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics’ “Demographic Features” function. It enables reports to be produced that include statements about the age, gender and interests of website visitors. This data originates from interests-related Google advertising as well as visitor data supplied by third-party providers. This data cannot be matched to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time by adjusting the advertising settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the “Opting out of data collection” section above.
Google Analytics Remarketing
Our website uses the Google Analytics Remarketing function in combination with the cross-device Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick functions. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
This function enables the advertising target audiences generated by Google Analytics Remarketing to be linked with the cross-device Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick functions. This enables interests-related, personalised advertising messages, which were matched to you based on previous usage or browsing behaviour on one terminal device (e.g. smartphone), to be displayed on one of your other terminal devices (e.g. tablet or PC).
If you have provided the relevant consent, Google links your web and app browser history with your Google account for this purpose. This enables the same personalised advertising messages to be displayed on every terminal device that you log on to using your Google account.
To support this function, Google Analytics records Google-authenticated User IDs, which are temporarily linked with our Google Analytics data, in order to define and generate target audiences for cross-device advertising.
You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by deactivating the personalised advertising setting in your Google account. To do so, click on the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
The collected data is pooled in your Google account solely on the basis of your consent, which you can provide Google with or revoke (Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. a GDPR). As far as data collection processes that are not pooled in your Google account are concerned, (e.g. because you do not have a Google account or have opted out of pooling), data collection is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest is derived from the fact that the website operator has an interest in analysing anonymised website visitor data for promotional purposes.
For more privacy policy information, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy at: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
GOOGLE ADWORDS aND GOOGLE CONVERSION TRACKING
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising programme provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking. A conversion tracking cookie is set when you click on a Google ad. Cookies are small text files that an Internet browser stores on a user’s computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not utilised for user identification purposes. If the user visits certain sections of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can tell that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this site.
Every Google AdWords advertiser has a different cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked using the website of an AdWords advertiser. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Advertisers are told the total number of users, who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page featuring a conversion tracking tag. However, advertisers do not obtain any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in this tracking activity, you can opt out by simply deactivating the Google Conversion Tracking cookie by changing your browser settings. If you do so, you will not be included in conversion tracking statistics.
“Conversion cookies” are stored based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analysing user behaviour, in order to enhance both its web offering and its advertising.
You can obtain further information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking in Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/.
You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies, so that you can decide whether to accept cookies on a case-by-case basis, whether to reject cookies in certain cases or generally and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. Deactivating cookies may impair the functionality of this website.
Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereafter referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).
The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether the data input on our websites (e.g. in a Contact Form) has been entered by a human or by an automated software programme. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis commences automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For analysis purposes, reCAPTCHA evaluates various pieces of information (e.g. IP address, time spent by the visitor on the website or mouse movements by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.
reCAPTCHA analyses are conducted entirely in the background. Website visitors are not made aware of the fact that an analysis is being performed.
In this case, data processing is based on Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings against improper automated espionage and SPAM.
You can obtain further information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s Privacy Policy from the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
Source: https://www.e-recht24.de