Privacy Policy

The data controller within the meaning of data protection laws, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Justin Kirsch
Lisa Maria Kleiner

Your Rights as Data Subjects

Under the provided contact details of our data protection officer, you can exercise the following rights at any time:

If you have granted us your consent, you can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority at any time, e.g., with the competent supervisory authority of the federal state of your residence or the authority responsible for us as the data controller.

A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with addresses can be found at:



https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Service/Anschriften/Laender/Laender-node.html.

Collection of General Information When Visiting Our Website

Nature and Purpose of Processing:

When you access our website, i.e., when you do not register or otherwise transmit information, information of a general nature is automatically recorded. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your IP address, and similar.

They are processed, in particular, for the following purposes:

We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your person. Information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us, if necessary, in an anonymized form in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Legal Basis and Legitimate Interest:

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Retention Period:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose of collection. For data that is used to provide the website, this is generally the case when the respective session is terminated.

Provision Required or Necessary:

The provision of the aforementioned personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. However, without the IP address, the service and functionality of our website cannot be guaranteed. In addition, certain services and features may not be available or may be restricted. For this reason, an objection is excluded.

Non-Essential Technical Cookies

Furthermore, we use cookies to better tailor the offering on our website to the interests of our visitors or to improve it based on statistical evaluations in general.

For information about which providers set cookies, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics technologies used.

Legal Basis:

The legal basis for these processing activities is your consent, according to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

For additional recipients, please refer to the information provided below on the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics technologies used.

Transfer to Third Countries:

For information on this, please refer to the listings of the individual display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics providers.

Provision Required or Necessary:

Naturally, you can view our website without cookies. Web browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can disable the use of cookies at any time through your browser settings (see withdrawal of consent).

Please note that certain functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Withdrawal of Consent:

You can revoke your consent at any time using our cookie consent tool.

Profiling:

For details on how we analyze the behavior of website visitors with pseudonymized user profiles, please refer to the information below on the display, tracking, remarketing, and web analytics technologies used.

Registration on our Website

Nature and Purpose of Processing:

For registration on our website, we require some personal data that is transmitted to us through an input form.

At the time of registration, the following data is also collected:

Your registration is necessary for providing certain content and services on our website.

Legal Basis:

The processing of data provided during registration is based on the user's consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may be technical service providers who act as processors for the operation and maintenance of our website.

Retention Period:

Data in this context is processed only as long as the corresponding consent exists.

Provision Required or Necessary:

Providing your personal data is voluntary, solely based on your consent. Without providing your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our offered content.

Comment Function

Nature and Purpose of Processing:

Legal Basis:

When users leave comments on our website, in addition to this information, the time of their creation and the username chosen by the website visitor are also stored. This is for our security, as we can be held responsible for unlawful content on our website, even if it was created by users.

Wenn Sie Fragen zum Datenschutz haben, schreiben Sie uns bitte eine E-Mail oder wenden Sie sich direkt an die für den Datenschutz verantwortliche Person in unserer Organisation:

The processing of data entered as comments is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

By providing the comment function, we want to enable uncomplicated interaction. The information you provide is stored for the purpose of processing the request and for possible follow-up questions.

Recipients:

Recipients of the data may be processors.

Retention Period:

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose of collection. This is generally the case when communication with the user is completed, and the company can determine that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified. We reserve the right to delete without giving reasons and without prior or subsequent notice.

In addition, you can have your comment deleted by us at any time. To do so, please send an email to the data protection officer listed below or the person responsible for data protection, and provide the link to your comment, as well as the email address used when creating the comment, for identification purposes.

Provision Required or Necessary:

Providing your personal data is voluntary. Without providing your personal data, we cannot grant you access to our comment function.

Information about Your Right to Object according to Art. 21 GDPR

Right to Object on a Case-by-Case Basis

You have the right to object at any time, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (data processing based on a balancing of interests), including profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR.

If you object, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Recipient of an Objection

Dennis Kiefer
Justin Kirsch
Lisa Maria Kleiner

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, such as when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will apply to your next visit.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

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