Pri­vacy policy

Per­son­al data (usu­ally referred to just as “data” below) will only be pro­cessed by us to the extent neces­sary and for the pur­pose of provid­ing a func­tion­al and user-friendly web­site, includ­ing its con­tents, and the ser­vices offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (here­in­after referred to as the “GDPR”), “pro­cessing” refers to any oper­a­tion or set of oper­a­tions such as col­lec­tion, record­ing, organ­iz­a­tion, struc­tur­ing, stor­age, adapt­a­tion, alter­a­tion, retriev­al, con­sulta­tion, use, dis­clos­ure by trans­mis­sion, dis­sem­in­a­tion, or oth­er­wise mak­ing avail­able, align­ment, or com­bin­a­tion, restric­tion, eras­ure, or destruc­tion per­formed on per­son­al data, wheth­er by auto­mated means or not.

The fol­low­ing pri­vacy policy is inten­ded to inform you in par­tic­u­lar about the type, scope, pur­pose, dur­a­tion, and leg­al basis for the pro­cessing of such data either under our own con­trol or in con­junc­tion with oth­ers. We also inform you below about the third-party com­pon­ents we use to optim­ize our web­site and improve the user exper­i­ence which may res­ult in said third parties also pro­cessing data they col­lect and con­trol.

Our pri­vacy policy is struc­tured as fol­lows:

I. Inform­a­tion about us as con­trol­lers of your data
II. The rights of users and data sub­jects
III. Inform­a­tion about the data pro­cessing

I. Inform­a­tion about us as con­trol­lers of your data

The party respons­ible for this web­site (the “con­trol­ler”) for pur­poses of data pro­tec­tion law is:

Dirk Heur­ich
Sem­per­straße 8
22303 Ham­burg

Phone: +49(0)40 - 35 71 09 93
mail@dirk-heurich.de

II. The rights of users and data sub­jects

With regard to the data pro­cessing to be described in more detail below, users and data sub­jects have the right

• to con­firm­a­tion of wheth­er data con­cern­ing them is being pro­cessed, inform­a­tion about the data being pro­cessed, fur­ther inform­a­tion about the nature of the data pro­cessing, and cop­ies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
• to cor­rect or com­plete incor­rect or incom­plete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
• to the imme­di­ate dele­tion of data con­cern­ing them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, altern­at­ively, if fur­ther pro­cessing is neces­sary as stip­u­lated in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said pro­cessing per Art. 18 GDPR;
• to receive cop­ies of the data con­cern­ing them and/or provided by them and to have the same trans­mit­ted to oth­er providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
• to file com­plaints with the super­vis­ory author­ity if they believe that data con­cern­ing them is being pro­cessed by the con­trol­ler in breach of data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addi­tion, the con­trol­ler is obliged to inform all recip­i­ents to whom it dis­closes data of any such cor­rec­tions, dele­tions, or restric­tions placed on pro­cessing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. How­ever, this oblig­a­tion does not apply if such noti­fic­a­tion is impossible or involves a dis­pro­por­tion­ate effort. Nev­er­the­less, users have a right to inform­a­tion about these recip­i­ents.

Like­wise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data sub­jects have the right to object to the controller’s future pro­cessing of their data pur­su­ant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In par­tic­u­lar, an objec­tion to data pro­cessing for the pur­pose of dir­ect advert­ising is per­miss­ible.

III. Inform­a­tion about the data pro­cessing

Your data pro­cessed when using our web­site will be deleted or blocked as soon as the pur­pose for its stor­age ceases to apply, provided the dele­tion of the same is not in breach of any stat­utory stor­age oblig­a­tions or unless oth­er­wise stip­u­lated below.

Serv­er data

For tech­nic­al reas­ons, the fol­low­ing data sent by your inter­net browser to us or to our serv­er pro­vider will be col­lec­ted, espe­cially to ensure a secure and stable web­site: These serv­er log files record the type and ver­sion of your browser, oper­at­ing sys­tem, the web­site from which you came (refer­rer URL), the webpages on our site vis­ited, the date and time of your vis­it, as well as the IP address from which you vis­ited our site.

The data thus col­lec­ted will be tem­por­ar­ily stored, but not in asso­ci­ation with any oth­er of your data.

The basis for this stor­age is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­im­ate interest lies in the improve­ment, sta­bil­ity, func­tion­al­ity, and secur­ity of our web­site.

The data will be deleted with­in no more than sev­en days, unless con­tin­ued stor­age is required for evid­en­tiary pur­poses. In which case, all or part of the data will be excluded from dele­tion until the invest­ig­a­tion of the rel­ev­ant incid­ent is finally resolved.

Cook­ies

a) Ses­sion cook­ies

We use cook­ies on our web­site. Cook­ies are small text files or oth­er stor­age tech­no­lo­gies stored on your com­puter by your browser. These cook­ies pro­cess cer­tain spe­cif­ic inform­a­tion about you, such as your browser, loc­a­tion data, or IP address.

This pro­cessing makes our web­site more user-friendly, effi­cient, and secure, allow­ing us, for example, to dis­play our web­site in dif­fer­ent lan­guages or to offer a shop­ping cart func­tion.

The leg­al basis for such pro­cessing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR, inso­far as these cook­ies are used to col­lect data to ini­ti­ate or pro­cess con­trac­tu­al rela­tion­ships.

If the pro­cessing does not serve to ini­ti­ate or pro­cess a con­tract, our legit­im­ate interest lies in improv­ing the func­tion­al­ity of our web­site. The leg­al basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

When you close your browser, these ses­sion cook­ies are deleted.

b) Third-party cook­ies

If neces­sary, our web­site may also use cook­ies from com­pan­ies with whom we cooper­ate for the pur­pose of advert­ising, ana­lyz­ing, or improv­ing the fea­tures of our web­site.

Please refer to the fol­low­ing inform­a­tion for details, in par­tic­u­lar for the leg­al basis and pur­pose of such third-party col­lec­tion and pro­cessing of data col­lec­ted through cook­ies.

c) Dis­abling cook­ies

You can refuse the use of cook­ies by chan­ging the set­tings on your browser. Like­wise, you can use the browser to delete cook­ies that have already been stored. How­ever, the steps and meas­ures required vary, depend­ing on the browser you use. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­ment­a­tion for your browser or con­tact its maker for sup­port. Browser set­tings can­not pre­vent so-called flash cook­ies from being set. Instead, you will need to change the set­ting of your Flash play­er. The steps and meas­ures required for this also depend on the Flash play­er you are using. If you have any ques­tions, please use the help func­tion or con­sult the doc­u­ment­a­tion for your Flash play­er or con­tact its maker for sup­port.

If you pre­vent or restrict the install­a­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions on our site may be fully usable.

Con­tact

If you con­tact us via email or the con­tact form, the data you provide will be used for the pur­pose of pro­cessing your request. We must have this data in order to pro­cess and answer your inquiry; oth­er­wise we will not be able to answer it in full or at all.

The leg­al basis for this data pro­cessing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted once we have fully answered your inquiry and there is no fur­ther leg­al oblig­a­tion to store your data, such as if an order or con­tract res­ul­ted there­from.

Google Ana­lyt­ics

We use Google Ana­lyt­ics on our web­site. This is a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphi­theatre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 (here­in­after: Google).

Through cer­ti­fic­a­tion accord­ing to the EU-US Pri­vacy Shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google guar­an­tees that it will fol­low the EU’s data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions when pro­cessing data in the United States.

The Google Ana­lyt­ics ser­vice is used to ana­lyze how our web­site is used. The leg­al basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­im­ate interest lies in the ana­lys­is, optim­iz­a­tion, and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our site.

Usage and user-related inform­a­tion, such as IP address, place, time, or fre­quency of your vis­its to our web­site will be trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the United States and stored there. How­ever, we use Google Ana­lyt­ics with the so-called anonym­iz­a­tion func­tion, whereby Google trun­cates the IP address with­in the EU or the EEA before it is trans­mit­ted to the US.

The data col­lec­ted in this way is in turn used by Google to provide us with an eval­u­ation of vis­its to our web­site and what vis­it­ors do once there. This data can also be used to provide oth­er ser­vices related to the use of our web­site and of the inter­net in gen­er­al.

Google states that it will not con­nect your IP address to oth­er data. In addi­tion, Google provides fur­ther inform­a­tion with regard to its data pro­tec­tion prac­tices at

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners,

includ­ing options you can exer­cise to pre­vent such use of your data.

In addi­tion, Google offers an opt-out add-on at

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

in addi­tion with fur­ther inform­a­tion. This add-on can be installed on the most pop­u­lar browsers and offers you fur­ther con­trol over the data that Google col­lects when you vis­it our web­site. The add-on informs Google Ana­lyt­ics’ JavaS­cript (ga.js) that no inform­a­tion about the web­site vis­it should be trans­mit­ted to Google Ana­lyt­ics. How­ever, this does not pre­vent inform­a­tion from being trans­mit­ted to us or to oth­er web ana­lyt­ics ser­vices we may use as detailed herein.