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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:

PI®-Technology Europe­Kno­vo Han­dels- und Beteili­gungs GmbH
Fritschgasse 1
A‑5020, Salzburg]

Tele­fon: +43 662 870180–12
E‑Mail: pi-technology.europe@lvl.at

The controller’s data pro­tec­tion offi­cer is:

Marie Vogl
Tele­fon: +43 (0)662 870 180–12

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.

Cookie Manager

To obtain con­sent for the use of tech­ni­cal­ly unnec­es­sary cook­ies on the web­site, the provider uses a cook­ie man­ag­er.

When the web­site is called up, a cook­ie with the set­tings infor­ma­tion is stored on the end device of the user so that the request for con­sent does not have to be made on a sub­se­quent vis­it.

The cook­ie is required to obtain legal­ly com­pli­ant user con­sent.

You can pre­vent cook­ies from being installed by adjust­ing the set­tings on your inter­net brows­er.

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 coöper­ate 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.

Customer account/registration

If you cre­ate a cus­tomer account with us via our web­site, we will use the data you entered dur­ing reg­is­tra­tion (e.g. your name, your address, or your email address) exclu­sive­ly for ser­vices lead­ing up to your poten­tial place­ment of an order or enter­ing some oth­er con­trac­tu­al rela­tion­ship with us, to ful­fill such orders or con­tracts, and to pro­vide cus­tomer care (e.g. to pro­vide you with an overview of your pre­vi­ous orders or to be able to offer you a wish­list func­tion). We also store your IP address and the date and time of your reg­is­tra­tion. This data will not be trans­ferred to third par­ties.

Dur­ing the reg­is­tra­tion process, your con­sent will be obtained for this pro­cess­ing of your data, with ref­er­ence made to this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy. The data col­lect­ed by us will be used exclu­sive­ly to pro­vide your cus­tomer account.

If you give your con­sent to this pro­cess­ing, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR is the legal basis for this pro­cess­ing.

If the open­ing of the cus­tomer account is also intend­ed to lead to the ini­ti­a­tion of a con­trac­tu­al rela­tion­ship with us or to ful­fill an exist­ing con­tract with us, the legal basis for this pro­cess­ing is also Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

You may revoke your pri­or con­sent to the pro­cess­ing of your per­son­al data at any time under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revok­ing your con­sent.

The data pre­vi­ous­ly col­lect­ed will then be delet­ed as soon as pro­cess­ing is no longer nec­es­sary. How­ev­er, we must observe any reten­tion peri­ods required under tax and com­mer­cial law.

Newsletter

If you reg­is­ter for our free newslet­ter, the data request­ed from you for this pur­pose, i.e. your email address and, option­al­ly, your name and address, will be sent to us. We also store the IP address of your com­put­er and the date and time of your reg­is­tra­tion. Dur­ing the reg­is­tra­tion process, we will obtain your con­sent to receive this newslet­ter and the type of con­tent it will offer, with ref­er­ence made to this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy. The data col­lect­ed will be used exclu­sive­ly to send the newslet­ter and will not be passed on to third par­ties.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

You may revoke your pri­or con­sent to receive this newslet­ter under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revok­ing your con­sent or click on the unsub­scribe link con­tained in each newslet­ter.

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.

Facebook

To adver­tise our prod­ucts and ser­vices as well as to com­mu­ni­cate with inter­est­ed par­ties or cus­tomers, we have a pres­ence on the Face­book plat­form.

On this social media plat­form, we are joint­ly respon­si­ble with Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Lim­it­ed, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland.

The data pro­tec­tion offi­cer of Face­book can be reached via this con­tact form:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

We have defined the joint respon­si­bil­i­ty in an agree­ment regard­ing the respec­tive oblig­a­tions with­in the mean­ing of the GDPR. This agree­ment, which sets out the rec­i­p­ro­cal oblig­a­tions, is avail­able at the fol­low­ing link:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

The legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of the result­ing and sub­se­quent­ly dis­closed per­son­al data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, sales, and pro­mo­tion of our prod­ucts and ser­vices.

The legal basis may also be your con­sent per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR grant­ed to the plat­form oper­a­tor. Per Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, you may revoke this con­sent with the plat­form oper­a­tor at any time with future effect.

When access­ing our online pres­ence on the Face­book plat­form, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. as the oper­a­tor of the plat­form in the EU will process your data (e.g. per­son­al infor­ma­tion, IP address, etc.).

This data of the user is used for sta­tis­ti­cal infor­ma­tion on the use of our com­pa­ny pres­ence on Face­book. Face­book Ire­land Ltd. uses this data for mar­ket research and adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es as well as for the cre­ation of user pro­files. Based on these pro­files, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. can pro­vide adver­tis­ing both with­in and out­side of Face­book based on your inter­ests. If you are logged into Face­book at the time you access our site, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. will also link this data to your user account.

If you con­tact us via Face­book, the per­son­al data your pro­vide at that time will be used to process the request. We will delete this data once we have com­plete­ly respond­ed to your query, unless there are legal oblig­a­tions to retain the data, such as for sub­se­quent ful­fill­ment of con­tracts.

Face­book Ire­land Ltd. might also set cook­ies when pro­cess­ing your data.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Cook­ies that have already been saved can be delet­ed at any time. The instruc­tions to do this depend on the brows­er and sys­tem being used. For Flash cook­ies, the pro­cess­ing can­not be pre­vent­ed by the set­tings in your brows­er, but instead by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your Flash play­er. If you pre­vent or restrict the instal­la­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions of Face­book may be ful­ly usable.

Details on the pro­cess­ing activ­i­ties, their sup­pres­sion, and the dele­tion of the data processed by Face­book can be found in its pri­va­cy pol­i­cy:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

It can­not be exclud­ed that the pro­cess­ing by Face­book Ire­land Ltd. will also take place in the Unit­ed States by Meta Plat­forms, Inc., 1601 Wil­low Road, Men­lo Park, Cal­i­for­nia 94025.

Instagram

To adver­tise our prod­ucts and ser­vices as well as to com­mu­ni­cate with inter­est­ed par­ties or cus­tomers, we have a pres­ence on the Insta­gram plat­form.

On this social media plat­form, we are joint­ly respon­si­ble with Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Lim­it­ed, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland.

The data pro­tec­tion offi­cer of Insta­gram can be reached via this con­tact form:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970

We have defined the joint respon­si­bil­i­ty in an agree­ment regard­ing the respec­tive oblig­a­tions with­in the mean­ing of the GDPR. This agree­ment, which sets out the rec­i­p­ro­cal oblig­a­tions, is avail­able at the fol­low­ing link:

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum

The legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of the result­ing and sub­se­quent­ly dis­closed per­son­al data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, sales, and pro­mo­tion of our prod­ucts and ser­vices.

The legal basis may also be your con­sent per Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR grant­ed to the plat­form oper­a­tor. Per Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, you may revoke this con­sent with the plat­form oper­a­tor at any time with future effect.

When access­ing our online pres­ence on the Insta­gram plat­form, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. as the oper­a­tor of the plat­form in the EU will process your data (e.g. per­son­al infor­ma­tion, IP address, etc.).

This data of the user is used for sta­tis­ti­cal infor­ma­tion on the use of our com­pa­ny pres­ence on Insta­gram. Face­book Ire­land Ltd. uses this data for mar­ket research and adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es as well as for the cre­ation of user pro­files. Based on these pro­files, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. can pro­vide adver­tis­ing both with­in and out­side of Insta­gram based on your inter­ests. If you are logged into Insta­gram at the time you access our site, Face­book Ire­land Ltd. will also link this data to your user account.

If you con­tact us via Insta­gram, the per­son­al data your pro­vide at that time will be used to process the request. We will delete this data once we have com­plete­ly respond­ed to your query, unless there are legal oblig­a­tions to retain the data, such as for sub­se­quent ful­fill­ment of con­tracts.

Face­book Ire­land Ltd. might also set cook­ies when pro­cess­ing your data.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Cook­ies that have already been saved can be delet­ed at any time. The instruc­tions to do this depend on the brows­er and sys­tem being used. For Flash cook­ies, the pro­cess­ing can­not be pre­vent­ed by the set­tings in your brows­er, but instead by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your Flash play­er. If you pre­vent or restrict the instal­la­tion of cook­ies, not all of the func­tions of Insta­gram may be ful­ly usable.

Details on the pro­cess­ing activ­i­ties, their sup­pres­sion, and the dele­tion of the data processed by Insta­gram can be found in its pri­va­cy pol­i­cy:

https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

It can­not be exclud­ed that the pro­cess­ing by Face­book Ire­land Ltd. will also take place in the Unit­ed States by Meta Plat­forms, Inc., 1601 Wil­low Road, Men­lo Park, Cal­i­for­nia 94025.

General introduction

Facebook

Face­book Ire­land Lim­it­ed, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ire­land, a sub­sidiary of Face­book Inc., 1601 S. Cal­i­for­nia Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

YouTube

Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland, a sub­sidiary of Google LLC, 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043 USA

Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Facebook plug-in

Our web­site uses the plug-in of the Face­book social net­work. Facebook.com is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Meta Plat­forms Ire­land Lim­it­ed, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Irland.

In case you have grant­ed your con­sent to this pro­cess­ing the legal basis is Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis can also be Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­i­ty of our web­site.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the pos­si­ble plug-ins and their respec­tive func­tions is avail­able from Face­book at

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages you vis­it on our web­site, your brows­er will down­load an icon for the plug-in from Facebook’s servers in the USA. For tech­ni­cal rea­sons, it is nec­es­sary for Face­book to process your IP address. In addi­tion, the date and time of your vis­it to our web­site will also be record­ed.

If you are logged in to Face­book while vis­it­ing one of our plugged-in web­sites, the infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed by the plug-in from your spe­cif­ic vis­it will be rec­og­nized by Face­book. The infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed may then be assigned to your per­son­al account at Face­book. If, for exam­ple, you use the Face­book Like but­ton, this infor­ma­tion will be stored in your Face­book account and pub­lished on the Face­book plat­form. If you want to pre­vent this, you must either log out of Face­book before vis­it­ing our web­site or use an add-on for your brows­er to pre­vent the Face­book plug-in from load­ing.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion options in Facebook’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy found at

https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Google Analytics

We use Google Ana­lyt­ics on our web­site. This is a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

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.

FontAwesome

In order to be able to dis­play fonts and visu­al ele­ments of our web­site, we use FontAwesome’s exter­nal fonts.  FontAwe­some is a ser­vice of

Fonti­cons Inc., 6 Porter Road, Apart­ment 3R, Cam­bridge, MA 02140, USA, here­inafter referred to as „FontAwe­some“.

When you access our web­site, a con­nec­tion is estab­lished to the FontAwe­some serv­er in the USA in order to enable and update the dis­play of fonts and visu­al ele­ments.

The legal basis is Art.  6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the opti­mi­sa­tion and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our web­site.

By con­nect­ing to the FontAwe­some serv­er when you access our web­site, FontAwe­some can deter­mine from which web­site your request was sent and to which IP address the font should be sent.

At

https://fontawesome.com/privacy

FontAwe­some offers fur­ther infor­ma­tion, in par­tic­u­lar on the options for pre­vent­ing data use.

Google reCAPTCHA

Our web­site uses Google reCAPTCHA to check and pre­vent auto­mat­ed servers („bots“) from access­ing and inter­act­ing with our web­site. This is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

This ser­vice allows Google to deter­mine from which web­site your request has been sent and from which IP address the reCAPTCHA input box has been used. In addi­tion to your IP address, Google may col­lect oth­er infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary to pro­vide and guar­an­tee this ser­vice.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the secu­ri­ty of our web­site and in the pre­ven­tion of unwant­ed, auto­mat­ed access in the form of spam or sim­i­lar.

Google offers detailed infor­ma­tion at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

con­cern­ing the gen­er­al han­dling of your user data.

Google-Maps

Our web­site uses Google Maps to dis­play our loca­tion and to pro­vide direc­tions. This is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

To enable the dis­play of cer­tain fonts on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to the Google serv­er in the USA is estab­lished when­ev­er our web­site is accessed.

If you access the Google Maps com­po­nents inte­grat­ed into our web­site, Google will store a cook­ie on your device via your brows­er. Your user set­tings and data are processed to dis­play our loca­tion and cre­ate a route descrip­tion. We can­not pre­vent Google from using servers in the USA.

In case you have grant­ed your con­sent to this pro­cess­ing the legal basis is Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis can also be Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in opti­miz­ing the func­tion­al­i­ty of our web­site.

By con­nect­ing to Google in this way, Google can deter­mine from which web­site your request has been sent and to which IP address the direc­tions are trans­mit­ted.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

In addi­tion, the use of Google Maps and the infor­ma­tion obtained via Google Maps is gov­erned by the Google Terms of Use https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=DE&hl=en and the Terms and Con­di­tions for Google Maps https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Google also offers fur­ther infor­ma­tion at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

jQuery CDN

We use the ser­vice jQuery CDN, a Con­tent Deliv­ery Net­work („CDN“), on our web­site to opti­mise the retrieval speed, the design and pre­sen­ta­tion of the con­tent of our web­site on dif­fer­ent devices.

This is a ser­vice of the jQuery Foun­da­tion, here­inafter referred to as „jQuery“. jQuery is dis­trib­uted for the JS Foun­da­tion via the Stack­Path CDN.

In order to be able to deliv­er the con­tent of our web­site quick­ly, the ser­vice uses so-called JavaScript libraries.  Rel­e­vant files are loaded from the CDN serv­er if they are not already avail­able in your brows­er cache when you vis­it anoth­er web­site.  In the case of a con­nec­tion to the CDN serv­er, your IP address is record­ed.  It can­not be ruled out that a con­nec­tion will be estab­lished to a serv­er out­side the EU.

The legal basis is Art.  6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in speed­ing up load­ing times and pro­tect­ing our web­site, as well as in analysing and opti­mis­ing our web­site.

To total­ly pre­vent the exe­cu­tion of jQuery’s JavaScript code, you can install a so-called JavaScript block­er, such as noscript.net or ghostery.com. . If you were to pre­vent or restrict the exe­cu­tion of the Java Script code, this can mean that for tech­ni­cal rea­sons not all the con­tent and func­tions of our web­site may be avail­able.

YouTube

We use YouTube on our web­site. This is a video por­tal oper­at­ed by Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland, here­inafter referred to as „YouTube“.

We use YouTube in its advanced pri­va­cy mode to show you videos. In case you have grant­ed your con­sent to this pro­cess­ing the legal basis is Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis can also be Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in improv­ing the qual­i­ty of our web­site. Accord­ing to YouTube, the advanced pri­va­cy mode means that the data spec­i­fied below will only be trans­mit­ted to the YouTube serv­er if you actu­al­ly start a video.

With­out this mode, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube serv­er in the USA will be estab­lished as soon as you access any of our web­pages on which a YouTube video is embed­ded.

This con­nec­tion is required in order to be able to dis­play the respec­tive video on our web­site with­in your brows­er. YouTube will record and process at a min­i­mum your IP address, the date and time the video was dis­played, as well as the web­site you vis­it­ed. In addi­tion, a con­nec­tion to the Dou­bleClick adver­tis­ing net­work of Google is estab­lished.

If you are logged in to YouTube when you access our site, YouTube will assign the con­nec­tion infor­ma­tion to your YouTube account. To pre­vent this, you must either log out of YouTube before vis­it­ing our site or make the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your YouTube account.

For the pur­pose of func­tion­al­i­ty and analy­sis of usage behav­ior, YouTube per­ma­nent­ly stores cook­ies on your device via your brows­er. If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the col­lec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion options in Google’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense on our web­site to inte­grate adver­tise­ments. This is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

Google AdSense stores cook­ies and web bea­cons on your device via your brows­er. This enables Google to ana­lyze how you use our web­site. In addi­tion to your IP address and the adver­tis­ing for­mats dis­played, the infor­ma­tion thus col­lect­ed will be trans­mit­ted to Google in the USA and stored there. Google may also share this infor­ma­tion with third par­ties. Google states that it will not con­nect your IP address to oth­er data.

In case you have grant­ed your con­sent to this pro­cess­ing the legal basis is Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis can also be Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, opti­miza­tion, and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our site.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

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

https://policies.google.com/privacy

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

in par­tic­u­lar on options for pre­vent­ing the use of data.

Google AdWords with Conversion Tracking

Our web­site uses Google AdWords and con­ver­sion track­ing. This is a ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google Ire­land Lim­it­ed, Gor­don House, Bar­row Street, Dublin 4, Irland (here­inafter: Google).

We use con­ver­sion track­ing to pro­vide tar­get­ed pro­mo­tion of our site. In case you have grant­ed your con­sent to this pro­cess­ing the legal basis is Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis can also be Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis, opti­miza­tion, and eco­nom­ic oper­a­tion of our site.

If you click on an ad placed by Google, the con­ver­sion track­ing we use stores a cook­ie on your device. These so-called con­ver­sion cook­ies expire after 30 days and do not oth­er­wise iden­ti­fy you per­son­al­ly.

If the cook­ie is still valid and you vis­it a spe­cif­ic page of our web­site, both we and Google can eval­u­ate that you clicked on one of our ads placed on Google and that you were then for­ward­ed to our web­site.

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. In addi­tion, we receive infor­ma­tion about the num­ber of users who clicked on our advertisement(s) as well as about the pages on our site that are sub­se­quent­ly vis­it­ed. Nei­ther we nor third par­ties who also use Google AdWords will be able to iden­ti­fy you from this con­ver­sion track­ing.

You can also pre­vent or restrict the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in 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.

In addi­tion, Google pro­vides fur­ther infor­ma­tion with regard to its data pro­tec­tion prac­tices at

https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html

https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

in par­tic­u­lar infor­ma­tion on how you can pre­vent the use of your data.

MailChimp – Newsletter

We offer you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reg­is­ter for our free newslet­ter via our web­site.

We use MailChimp, a ser­vice of The Rock­et Sci­ence Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA, here­inafter referred to as „The Rock­et Sci­ence Group“.

In addi­tion, the Rock­et Sci­ence Group offers fur­ther infor­ma­tion about its data pro­tec­tion prac­tices at

http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

If you reg­is­ter for our free newslet­ter, the data request­ed from you for this pur­pose, i.e. your email address and, option­al­ly, your name and address, will be processed by The Rock­et Sci­ence Group. In addi­tion, your IP address and the date and time of your reg­is­tra­tion will be saved. Dur­ing the reg­is­tra­tion process, your con­sent to receive this newslet­ter will be obtained togeth­er with a con­crete descrip­tion of the type of con­tent it will offer and ref­er­ence made to this pri­va­cy pol­i­cy.

The newslet­ter then sent out by The Rock­et Sci­ence Group will also con­tain a track­ing pix­el called a web bea­con. This pix­el helps us eval­u­ate whether and when you have read our newslet­ter and whether you have clicked any links con­tained there­in. In addi­tion to fur­ther tech­ni­cal data, such as data about your com­put­er hard­ware and your IP address, the data processed will be stored so that we can opti­mize our newslet­ter and respond to the wish­es of our read­ers. The data will there­fore increase the qual­i­ty and attrac­tive­ness of our newslet­ter.

The legal basis for send­ing the newslet­ter and the analy­sis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR.

You may revoke your pri­or con­sent to receive this newslet­ter under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revok­ing your con­sent or click on the unsub­scribe link con­tained in each newslet­ter.

Mod­el Data Pro­tec­tion State­ment for Anwalt­skan­zlei Weiß & Part­ner