Privacy policy
1) Information on the collection of personal data and contact
contact details of the controller
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you
for your interest. In the following we inform you about the handling of
your personal data when you use our website.
Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified.
can be identified.
1.2 The controller in charge of data processing on this website within the meaning of the
terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is
Armin Bihlmaier
Hirschauer Street 9
72070 Tübingen
The controller responsible for the processing of personal data is
the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others
with others, decides on the purposes and means of the processing of
personal data.
1.3 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal
transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders
content (e.g. orders or enquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or
TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the
‘https://’ and the lock symbol in your browser line.
recognise.
2) Data collection when visiting our website
When using our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you
do not register or otherwise transmit information to us,
we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server
server (so-called ‘server log files’). When you visit our website,
we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to
to display the website to you:
- Our visited website
- Date and time at the time of access
- Amount of data sent in bytes
- Source/reference from which you reached the page
- Browser used
- Operating system used
- IP address used (if applicable: in anonymised form)
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of
on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and
functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or otherwise
use of the data takes place. However, we reserve the right
reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete
evidence of unlawful use.
3) Cookies
In order to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of
certain functions, we reserve the right to use so-called cookies on various
pages to use so-called cookies. These are small text files
text files that are stored on your end device. Some of the cookies we use
cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after
session, i.e. after you close your browser (so-called session cookies).
Other cookies remain on your end device and enable us or our partner companies
our partner companies (cookies from third-party providers) to recognise your browser
recognise your browser on your next visit (persistent cookies). If
cookies are set, they collect and process certain user information
certain user information such as browser and location data and
IP address values. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a
deleted automatically after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie.
If individual cookies implemented by us also process
personal data are processed, the processing is carried out
in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate
interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a
customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
We may work together with advertising partners who help us
make our website more interesting for you. For this
For this purpose, when you visit our website, cookies from partner
cookies from partner companies are stored on your hard drive when you visit our website (cookies
from third-party providers). If we work with the aforementioned advertising partners
partners, you will be informed about the use of such cookies and the
scope of the information collected in each case within the following
paragraphs below.
Please note that you can set your browser so that
informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to
acceptance or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases
or generally exclude them. Each browser differs in
the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the
help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie
change your cookie settings. You can find these for the
browser under the following links:
Internet Explorer:
http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
Chrome:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=de_DE
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/de/cookies.html
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website
of our website may be restricted.
4) Making contact
In the context of contacting us (e.g. via contact form or e-mail)
e-mail), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case
collected in the case of a contact form can be seen from the
contact form. This data is used exclusively for the purpose of
purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated
and the associated technical administration.
The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in
interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f
GDPR. If your contact is aimed at the conclusion of a contract, then
additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit.
b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after final processing of your enquiry.
this is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the
that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and
provided that there are no statutory retention obligations to the contrary.
5) Registration with the portal or forum
If registration on our website is activated, the following applies:
You can register on our website by providing personal data.
personal data. Which personal data is processed for registration
data processed for registration is determined by the input mask used for registration.
used for registration. For registration, we use the so-called
double opt-in procedure, i.e. your registration is not complete until you have
completed until you have confirmed your registration via a confirmation e-mail
confirmation e-mail sent to you for this purpose by clicking on the link contained therein.
link contained therein. If your confirmation is not received within
confirmation is not received within 24 hours, your registration will be automatically
deleted from our database. The provision of the aforementioned data is
mandatory, you can provide all other information voluntarily by
use of our portal.
If you use our portal, we will store the data required to fulfil the contract
fulfilment of the contract, including any information on the method of payment, until you
finally delete your access. Furthermore, we store the data you
data you provide voluntarily for the duration of your use of the portal,
unless you delete them beforehand. You can manage and change all details in the
manage and change them in the protected customer area. The legal basis is Art.
6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
In addition, we store all content published by you
(such as public posts, noticeboard entries, guestbook entries,
etc.) in order to operate the website. The provision of the website with
the complete user-generated content is our legitimate interest
interest, the legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR.
If you delete your account, your public comments will remain,
especially in the forum, will remain visible to all readers, but your account
will no longer be accessible. In this case, all other data will be
deleted.
6) Comment function
As part of the comment function on this website, in addition to your comment
information about the time the comment was created and the commenter name you
the commentator name you have chosen are stored and published on the website.
published on the website. Furthermore, your IP address will also be logged and
stored. This storage of the IP address is done for security
security reasons and in the event that the data subject violates the rights
violates the rights of third parties or posts illegal
posts illegal content. We need your e-mail address in order to
contact you if a third party objects to your published content as unlawful.
content as unlawful. The legal basis for the
storage of your data are Art. 6 para. 1 lit.b and f GDPR. We
reserve the right to delete comments if they are objected to by third parties as
are objected to as unlawful.
As a user, you can subscribe to the follow-up comments.
You will receive a confirmation e-mail to ensure that you are the
that you are the owner of the e-mail address provided (double opt-in procedure
(double opt-in procedure). The legal basis for data processing
in the case of subscription to comments is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
You can cancel ongoing comment subscriptions at any time with effect for the future.
future, further information on the cancellation option can be found in the
please refer to the confirmation email.
7) Use of your data for direct advertising
Advertising by letter post
On the basis of our legitimate interest in personalised direct
direct advertising, we reserve the right to use your first and last name, your postal
postal address and – insofar as we have received this additional information from you
contractual relationship – your title, academic degree, year of birth
degree, your year of birth and your professional, industry or business
business name in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and
to send you interesting offers and information about our products by post.
our products by post.
You can object to the storage and use of your data for this purpose at
for this purpose at any time by sending a corresponding message to the
object to this.
8) Web analysis services
Google (Universal) Analytics
- Google Universal Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by
Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (‘Google’).
(‘Google’). Google Analytics uses so-called ‘cookies’, text files that are stored
stored on your computer and which enable your use of the website to be analysed.
analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie
information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including the
abbreviated IP address) is generally transmitted to a Google server in the
the USA and stored there.
This website uses Google Analytics exclusively with the
extension ‘_anonymizeIp()’, which ensures anonymisation of the IP address
anonymisation of the IP address by shortening it and excludes direct
excluded. The extension means that your IP address will be anonymised by Google
within the member states of the European Union or in other
States party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area
shortened beforehand. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a
Google server in the USA and shortened there. In these
exceptional cases, this processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f
DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical
analysis of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes.
Google will use this information on our behalf to analyse your
evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity
compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services
services associated with the use of the website and the Internet.
The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be
IP address will not be merged with other Google data.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate
setting in your browser software; however, we would like to point out
However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the
functions of this website to their full extent. You
You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and
data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) to
Google and the processing of this data by Google,
by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link
and install it:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
As an alternative to the browser plugin or within browsers on mobile devices
devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that
which will prevent Google Analytics from collecting data within this
website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this
browser and only for this domain; if you delete your cookies in this
this browser, you must click this link again):
onclick=‘alert(’Google Analytics has been
deactivated‘); “href=”javascript:gaOptout()’>Google Analytics
deactivate
Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the US-European
‘Privacy Shield’ data protection agreement, which guarantees compliance
guarantees compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.
This website also uses Google Analytics to analyse
cross-device analysis of visitor flows, which is carried out via a user ID.
is carried out. In your customer account under ‘My data’,
‘Personal data’ to deactivate the cross-device analysis of your use.
deactivate it.
More information on the handling of user data by Google Analytics
can be found in Google’s privacy policy:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de
9) Tools and miscellaneous
Google Maps
On our website we use Google Maps (API) from Google LLC,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (‘Google’).
Google Maps is a web service for the presentation of interactive
(land) maps to visually display geographical information. Through
use of this service will show you our location and make it easier for you to
and to make it easier for you to find us.
When you call up the subpages in which the map from
Google Maps is integrated, information about your use of our website
of our website (such as your IP address) is transmitted to Google servers in the
USA and stored there. This takes place regardless of whether
Google provides a user account through which you are logged in, or
whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be
your data directly to your account. If you do not wish to be associated with
profile with Google, you must log out before activating the button.
log out before activating the button. Google stores your data (even for users who are not
logged in users) as usage profiles and analyses them. Such an
Such an evaluation is carried out in particular in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit.f DSGVO
on the basis of Google’s legitimate interests in the display of personalised
personalised advertising, market research and/or needs-based
design of its website. You have the right to object to
the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact
Google to exercise this right
Google LLC, based in the USA, is certified for the us-European
‘Privacy Shield’ data protection agreement, which guarantees
guarantees compliance with the level of data protection applicable in the EU.
If you do not agree to the future transmission of your data to Google in the context of
use of Google Maps, you also have the option of deactivating the
possibility to completely deactivate the Google Maps web service,
by switching off the JavaScript application in your browser. Google
Maps and thus also the map display on this website can then
not be used.
You can view Google’s terms of use at
http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html, the
additional terms of use for Google Maps can be found at
https://www.google.com/intl/de_US/help/terms_maps.html
Detailed information on data protection in connection with the use of
Use of Google Maps can be found on the Google website
(‘Google Privacy Policy’): http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
10) Rights of the data subject
10.1 The applicable data protection law grants you vis-à-vis the
rights vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your
processing of your personal data (rights of access and intervention),
about which we inform you below:
- Right to information in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR: In particular, you have the right
to information about your personal data processed by us,
the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data
personal data processed, the recipients or categories of recipients
recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned
storage period or the criteria used to determine the storage period,
the existence of the right to request rectification, erasure, restriction of
processing, objection to the processing, complaint to a supervisory
supervisory authority, the origin of your data if it was not collected by us
collected from you, the existence of automated decision-making
automated decision-making including profiling and, where applicable, meaningful
information about the logic involved and the scope and intended
the scope and intended effects of such processing,
and your right to be informed of the safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR
if your data is transferred to third countries;
- Right to rectification in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR: You have the right to
immediate rectification of incorrect data concerning you and/or
completion of your incomplete data stored by us;
- Right to erasure in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR: You have the right to request the
erasure of your personal data if the requirements of Art.
of Art. 17 para. 1 GDPR. However, this right does not exist
in particular if the processing is necessary for exercising the right of
freedom of expression and information, for the fulfilment of a legal
fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or
for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims
is necessary;
- Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR: You
have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your
processing of your personal data for as long as the accuracy of your
accuracy of your data is verified, if you request the erasure of your data
erasure of your data due to unauthorised data processing and instead request the
restriction of the processing of your data if you need your data for the
data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal
defence of legal claims after we no longer need this data once the purpose
no longer need the data after the purpose has been achieved or if you have
particular situation, as long as it has not yet been determined whether
our legitimate grounds prevail;
- Right to information in accordance with Art. 19 GDPR: Do you have the right to
rectification, erasure or restriction of processing vis-à-vis the data
controller, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients
recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been
recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed
restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate
impossible or involves disproportionate effort, unless this proves
associated with a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed about these recipients.
to be informed about these recipients.
- Right to data portability in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR: You have the
right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us
to receive it in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format
machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another controller
controller, insofar as this is technically feasible;
- Right to revoke consent given in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR:
You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of data
processing of data at any time with effect for the future.
revoked. In the event of revocation, we will delete the data concerned
immediately, unless further processing is based on a legal basis for
legal basis for processing without consent can be supported.
processing without consent. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing
processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation
affected;
- Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR: If you are of the opinion
that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the
the GDPR, you have – without prejudice to any other administrative or
administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a
lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State
of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.
of the alleged infringement.
10.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A WEIGHING OF INTERESTS
ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST,
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING AT ANY TIME ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR
REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH
WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU MAKE USE OF YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED.
PROCESSING OF THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING
PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE
PROCESSING THAT OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE
ASSERTION, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE OF
DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING
THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH
PURPOSES OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR OBJECTION AS
DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE
PROCESSING OF THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
11) Duration of storage of personal data
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined by the respective
the respective statutory retention period (e.g. commercial and tax retention periods).
tax retention periods). After expiry of the period, the
routinely deleted if they are no longer required for the fulfilment
fulfilment of the contract or contract initiation and/or
we have no legitimate interest in further storage.
continues to exist.
NO WARNING WITHOUT CONTACT:
In the event of the assertion of claims of any kind arising from copyright, competition law and trade mark law matters, we request that you contact us immediately to avoid unnecessary legal disputes, warnings and costs. If claims of the above-mentioned type are asserted, we promise to remedy the situation before a final legally binding clarification, which will bindingly exclude any risk of repetition. A cost note of a lawyer’s warning without prior contact would then be rejected due to non-compliance with a duty to minimise damages. In the event of unnecessary or unjustified warnings and follow-up measures in this sense, the response would be a negative declaratory action.
Spam protection with Google reCAPTCHA
We have implemented Google reCAPTCHA in forms on our website to check whether the data entered in the forms comes from human visitors or from machines or automated programmes, also known as ‘bots’. This tool automatically analyses the behaviour of website visitors as soon as they interact with the website, using various information such as IP address, length of stay and mouse movements. The processed data includes usage data such as the website accessed, date and time of access and mouse movements as well as communication data such as IP addresses, browser type and operating system. This processing is aimed at website visitors and users of online services. The main purpose of this processing is to prevent misuse of our contact form and thereby increase security. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f. GDPR. The data recipients are Google Ireland Ltd, based at Google Building Gordon House, Barrow St, Dublin 4, Ireland, (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and our website hosting provider. While your personal data is processed within the EU, the retention period for the processed data is determined by Google Ireland Limited. Further information can be found in Google reCAPTCHA’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Website analysis (Jimdo statistics)
When you visit our website, we collect information about your usage through a web analytics tool provided by our hosting service. This tool collects and combines your IP address and your user agent, shortens them and stores this data with a hash function. This process creates a visitor identifier that is encrypted with a randomly generated value (SALT) that changes every 24 hours. This method ensures that your IP address cannot be reconstructed from the stored visitor identifier, thus preserving your anonymity. In addition, we do not merge this information with other data and it is only stored on the hosting provider’s server.
We also process web analytics data, HTTP data and web analytics profile data. The web analytics tool we use creates and stores a web analytics profile that contains details about your use of the website, such as page views, frequency of visits, time spent on each page and the user agent of your device. This includes usage data (such as web pages visited and access times) and communication data (such as browser type, operating system and IP addresses).
By processing this data, we want to analyse user behaviour in summarised form in order to improve the presentation and content of our website. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. (f) GDPR), in particular in carrying out web measurements in order to improve our products and our website.
The data collected is shared with our website hosting provider and processed within the EU.