Privacy Policy

1. Personal Data

   "Personal data" means any information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter referred to as "affected person"); being identifiable as a natural person is viewed directly or indirectly, in particular by assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more several special features that can be identified, the expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of this natural person.

2. Processing

   "Processing" is any executed process, with or without the help of automated procedures, or any such series of events related to personal data such as collecting, the capture, organizing, organizing, storing, adapting, or changing, selecting, querying, using, disclosing through transmission, dissemination or another form of provisioning, matching or linking, restriction, deletion or annihilation.

3. Restriction of Processing

   "Restriction of processing" is the marking of stored personal data with the aim to limit their future processing.

4. Profiling

   "Profiling" is any type of automated processing of personal data that consists of the usage of this personal information to identify certain personal aspects related to a natural person, to evaluate, in particular, aspects relating to work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or change of location of that natural person to analyze or predict this.

5. Pseudonymization

   "Pseudonymization" is the processing of personal data in a way that the personal data can no longer be assigned to a specific person without the use of additional information, provided that this additional information is separate and subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that that the personal data cannot be assigned to an identified or identifiable natural person.

6. File System

   "File system" is any structured collection of personal data that is determined by certain criteria regardless of whether this collection is centralized, decentralized or organized by functional or geographic point of view.

7. Responsible Person

   "Responsible person" means a natural or legal person, public authority, institution or other body, who alone or together with others decides about the purposes and means of processing personal data; should the purposes and means of this processing be predefined by the Union law or the law of the member states specific criteria of its designation can be made under Union law or national law of member states.

8. Processor

   "Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, institution or body, that processes personal data on behalf of the person responsible.

9. Recipient

   "Recipient" means a natural or legal person, public authority, institution or other body to whom personal information, regardless of whether it is a third party or not is disclosed. Authorities operating under a specific mission under the Union law or the law of the member states may receive personal data, however, are not considered recipients; the processing of this data by the said authorities takes place in accordance with applicable data protection legislation as per the purpose of processing.

10. Third Party

    "Third party" means a natural or legal person, public authority, institution or agency, other than the person affected, the person responsible, the processor and the persons working under the direct responsibility of the person responsible or the processor who are ordered to process personal data.

11. Consent

    A "consent" of the data subject is any information voluntarily given for the particular case, wise and unequivocal statements of intent in the form of a statement or other clear affirmative act by which the person concerned indicates that he or she agrees with the processing of personal data concerning him- or herself.

Legality of Processing

The processing of personal data is only legal if there is a legal basis for processing. The legal basis for the processing may, in accordance with Article 6 (1) lit. a – f GDPR be, in particular:

1. the data subject has given his/her consent to the processing of the personal data for one or more specific purposes;
2. processing is required for the fulfillment of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or required to carry out pre-contractual action, respectively at the request of the data subject;
3. the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation that the person responsible is subject to;
4. the processing is necessary to protect vital interests of the person concerned or to protect another natural person;
5. the processing is necessary for the performance of a task of public interest or takes place in the exercise of public authority delegated to the person responsible;
6. the processing is necessary for the protection of the legitimate interests of the person responsible or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, outweigh these interests, especially if the person concerned is a child.

Information About the Collection of Personal Data

1. Below, we inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.
2. When contacting us via e-mail or using the contact form the information provided by you (your e-mail address, if applicable, your name and your telephone number) will be saved by us to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer required, or the processing is restricted, if legal retention requirements exist.

Collection of Personal Data When Visiting Our Website

In the case of merely informative use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise submit information, we collect only the personal information that your browser transmits to our server. If you want to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically required to show you our website and to provide stability and security (legal basis is Article 6 (1) (1) (f) GDPR):

1. IP address
2. Date and time of the request
3. Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
4. Content of the requirement (concrete page)
5. Access status/HTTP status code
6. Each transmitted amount of data
7. Website from which the request comes
8. Browser
9. Operating system and its interface
10. Language and version of the browser software

More Features and Offers of Our Website

1. In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you use if they are of interest. To do this, you will usually need to provide other personal information that we use for the respective service and for which the aforementioned principles of data processing are valid.
2. In part, we use external service providers to process your data. These providers were carefully selected by us and commissioned and are bound by our instructions and are regularly inspected.
3. Furthermore, we may disclose your personal data to third parties, if action participation, raffles, contracts or similar services offered by us together with partners. More information can be found while disclosing personal data or below in the description of the offer.
4. Insofar as our service providers or partners are based in a state outside the European Union Economic Area (EEA), we inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

Children

Our offer is basically for adults. Persons under 18 should not submit any personal information to us without the consent of the parents or guardians.

Rights of the Person Concerned

1. Revocation of Consent

   If the processing of the personal data is based on a given consent, you have the right to revoke the consent at any time. By revoking the consent, the legality of the processing on the basis of the consent until the revocation is not affected. For the exercise of the right of withdrawal, you can always contact us.

2. Right to Confirmation

   You have the right to ask the person in charge to confirm whether we are processing personal data linked to your person. The confirmation can be requested at any time via the contact details above.

3. Right to Information

   If personal data is processed, you can always request information about this personal data and the following information:
   1. the processing purposes;
   2. the categories of personal data being processed;
   3. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal information has been disclosed or is yet to be disclosed, in particular to beneficiaries in third countries or at international organizations;
   4. if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this duration;
   5. the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing by the controller or right to object to this processing;
   6. the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
   7. if the personal data is not collected by the data subject, all available information about the origin of the data;
   8. the existence of automated decision making including profiling according to article 22 paragraphs 1 and 4 GDPR and - at least in these cases - meaningful information about the logic involved, and the implications and intended implications of such processing for the affected person.

   If personal data is transmitted to a third country or to an international organization, then you have the right to be informed about appropriate warranties under Article 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer. We provide a copy of the personal data that is the subject of processing. For all other copies that you request, we can charge a reasonable fee on the basis of administrative costs. If you send the request electronically, the information needs to be provided in a common electronic format, unless otherwise stated. The right to receive a copy in accordance with paragraph 3 shall not violate the rights and freedoms of any other person affect.

4. Right to Rectification

   You have the right to request promptly rectification incorrect personal data. Taking into account the purposes of processing, you have the right to completion of incomplete personal data - also by means of a supplementary statement – to desire.

5. Right to Cancellation (“Right to Be Forgotten”)

   You have the right to ask the person responsible to immediately delete your personal data, and we are obliged to delete personal data immediately, if one of the following is true:
   1. The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they are collected or otherwise processed.
   2. The data subject revokes their consent to the processing referred to in Article 6 (1) (a) or 9 (2) (a) GDPR and there is a lack of other legal basis for the processing.
   3. The data subject submits an objection to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (1) GDPR and there are no legitimate reasons for the processing, or the data subject submits an objection to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (2) GDPR.
   4. The personal data were processed unlawfully.
   5. The deletion of personal data is required to fulfill a legal obligation under Union law or the law of the Member States, the person responsible is subject to.
   6. The personal data was provided in relation to the services offered by Information Society pursuant to Article 8 (1) GDPR.

   If the person responsible has made the personal data publicly available and is, under paragraph 1 obligated to their deletion, he takes into account the available technology and the implementation costs of appropriate measures, including technical measures, to inform the responsible person who processes the personal data that an affected person has requested of them to delete all links to this personal data or of their copies or has requested replicas of this personal information.

   The right to deletion ("right to be forgotten") does not exist if the processing is required:
   1. to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information; to fulfill a legal obligation which complies with the processing of such data under Union or national law Member State to which the controller is subject or for the performance of task of public interest or in the exercise of official authority, which was transferred to the person responsible;
   2. for reasons of public interest in the field of public health as referred to in Article 9 (1) 2 letters h and i and Article 9 (3) GDPR;
   3. for archival purposes of public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, statistical purposes or in accordance with Article 89 (1) of the GDPR, in so far as the Paragraph 1 is likely to make it impossible to achieve the objectives of this processing makes or seriously affects them, or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

6. Right to Restriction of Processing

   You have the right to restrict us from processing your personal data if one of the following conditions is met:
   1. the accuracy of the personal data is disputed by the data subject for a period of time that allows the person responsible to verify the accuracy of the personal information,
   2. the processing is unlawful, and the data subject rejects the deletion of the personal data and instead demands limitation of the use of personal information;
   3. the person responsible for the personal data no longer requires them for the purpose of processing, however, the data subject requires them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or
   4. the person concerned objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the GDPR as long as it is not known whether the legitimate reasons of the person responsible over those of the person concerned outweigh.

   If the processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, this personal data - apart from its storage – will only be processed with the consent of the data subject or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State.

   In order to exercise the right to limit processing, the data subject may at any time contact us by using the contact details above.

7. Right to Data Portability

   You have the right to have the personal data relating to you, which you provided to us, in a structured, popular and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit this data to another responsible person without hindrance by the person responsible, to whom the person data has been provided, as long as:
   1. processing on consent is in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) or Article 9 (2) Subparagraph (a) or based on a contract pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR; and
   2. the processing is done using automated procedures.

   When exercising the right to data portability under paragraph 1, you have the right to transmit the personal data directly from one person responsible to another person responsible as far as technically feasible. The exercise of the right to data portability leaves the law to be deleted ("right to be forgotten"). This right does not apply to a processing which is necessary for the performance of a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of public authority, which has been assigned to the responsible person.

8. Right to Object

   You have the right, for reasons that arise from your particular situation, to object against the processing of personal data relating to you under Article 6 (1) (e) or f GDPR at any time; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The responsible person no longer processes the personal data, unless he can demonstrate legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the person concerned, or the processing is for assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.

   If personal data is processed to operate direct advertisement, you have the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such processing at any time; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising. If you object to processing for direct marketing/advertisement purposes, the personal data will no longer be processed for these purposes.

   Regarding the use of information services, you can, regardless of Directive 2002/58 / EC, exercise your right of objection by means of automated procedures in which technical specifications are used.

   You have the right, for reasons that arise from your particular situation, to object against processing of your personal data related to scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 (1), unless the processing is necessary to fulfill a public interest task.

   The right of objection can be exercised at any time by contacting the respective person responsible.

9. Automated Decisions on a Case-By-Case Basis, Including Profiling

   You have the right not to be subjected to a decision that solely relies on automated processing - including profiling - which has legal effect on you or affects you in a similar manner. This does not apply if the decision:
   1. is required for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the person concerned and the responsible person
   2. by legislation of the Union or of the Member States to which the person responsible is permissible, and that such legislation shall take appropriate measures to safeguard rights or freedoms and the legitimate interests of the data subject or
   3. with the expressed consent of the data subject.

   The responsible person takes appropriate measures to protect the rights and freedoms as well as the legitimate interests of the data subject, including at least the right to obtain the intervention of a person on the part of the responsible person, of statement of the own point of view and of contestation of the decision.

   This right may be exercised by the data subject at any time by contacting the respective person responsible.

10. Right to Complain to a Supervisory Authority

    You also have, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, the right to complain to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, your place of work or the place of alleged infringement if the person concerned is of the view that the processing of personal data concerning them is contrary to this regulation.

11. Right to Effective Judicial Remedy

    You have, without prejudice to any available administrative or extrajudicial remedy including the right to complain to a supervisory authority under Article 77 of the GDPR, the right to an effective judicial remedy, if you are of the view that the rights given to you by this regulation was violated by a non-compliance with the regulations for processing of personal data.